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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 by Madeleine Albright Publisher Comments Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia—the country where she was born—the Battle of Britain, the near total destruction of European Jewry, the Allied victory in World War II, the... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Hardcover 
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Armies in the Balkans 1914-18 by Nigel Thomas Publisher Comments Recent history should remind us that it was events in the Balkans which sparked off World War I (1914-1918), with the assassination of the Austrian heir Prince Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, and the consequent invasion of Serbia by Austro-Hungarian armies... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $12.38 Google eBooks - Electronic
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How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic Publisher Comments Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations (Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern) by Serhiy Bilenky Publisher Comments This book explores the political imagination of Eastern Europe in the 1830s and 1840s, when Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian intellectuals came to identify themselves as belonging to communities known as nations or nationalities. Bilenky approaches this... (read more) Your price: $76.25 New - Hardcover
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey by Isabel Fonseca Publisher Comments After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania — listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood by Barbara Demick Publisher Comments Logavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, it existed as a quiet residential area in a charming city long known for its ethnic and religious tolerance. On this street of 240 families, Muslims and... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia Publisher Comments Situated at the intersection of Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millenia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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From Stalinism To Pluralism : a Documentary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945 (2ND 96 Edition) by Gale Stokes Publisher Comments Bringing together a wealth of historical documents, memoirs, essays, and literature from Eastern Europe, this highly successful book vividly illustrates how the most original and challenging minds of the region have understood and reacted to Stanlinism... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $34.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The History of Bulgaria (Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations) by Frederick B. Chary Publisher Comments Now an Eastern European leader in the fields of science and technology, a nation with impressive renewable energy production capabilities and an extensive communication infrastructure, as well as a top exporter of minerals and metals, Bulgaria has grown... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Hardcover
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Gypsy Boy: My Life in the Secret World of the Romany Gypsies by Mikey Walsh Publisher Comments An Eye-Opening Memoir of Growing Up Gypsy Mikey Walsh was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They live in a secluded community, and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution, Gypsies are wary of outsiders, and if you choose... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover
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Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco Publisher Comments Praised by The New York Times, Brill's Content and Publishers Weekly, Safe Area Gorazde is the long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco (the critically-acclaimed author of Palestine) spent five months in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II by David Rohde Publisher Comments In 1993, the UN Security Council officially made Srebrenica the world’s first UN-protected civilian safe area and stripped the town’s Muslim defenders of their tanks and artillery. Two years later, Srebrenica fell after UN commanders turned... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: Facing the Holocaust (Comprehensive History of the Holocaust) by Livia Rothkirchen Publisher Comments Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem “We were both small nations whose existence could never be taken for granted,” Václav Havel said of the Czechs and the Jews of Israel in 1990, and... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg Publisher Comments The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Alicia: My Story by Ali Appleman Jurman Publisher Comments After losing her entire family to the Nazis at age 13, Alicia Appleman-Jurman went on to save the lives of thousands of Jews, offering them her own courage and hope in a time of upheaval and tragedy. Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has a young voice so... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Survivors : an Oral History of the Armenian Genocide (93 Edition) by Lorna Touryan Miller Publisher Comments Between 1915 and 1923, over one million Armenians died, victims of a genocidal campaign that is still denied by the Turkish government. Thousands of other Armenians suffered torture, brutality, deportation. Yet their story has received scant attention... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd Publisher Comments "A truly exceptional...account of his time in the Balkans and Chechnya....I read [Loyd's] story of war and addiction (to conflict and to heroin) with a sense of gratitude for the honesty and courage on every page." Independent (UK)"... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility by Taner Akcam Publisher Comments “The definitive account of the organized destruction of the Ottoman Armenians . . . No future discussion of the history will be able to ignore this brilliant book.”—Orhan Pamuk Beginning in 1915, under the cover of a world war, some... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Vanished Kingdom (00 Edition) by James Charles Roy Publisher Comments Twice in this century, Germany initiated wars of unimagined terror and destruction. In both cases, defense of the “Prussian” realm, the German homeland, was the perceived and vilified perpetrator. Few today understand with any precision what &#... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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To Kill a Nation : the Attack on Yugoslavia (00 Edition) by Michael Parenti Publisher Comments The Attack on Yugoslavia. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war and uncovers hidden agendas behind the Western talk of... (read more) Your price: $25.50 Used - Trade Paper
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