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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
by Diane Ackerman  
Powells.com Staff Pick Ackerman's bestselling books, including A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind, are illuminating windows into the human condition, and are distinguished not only by Ackerman's graceful and exuberant prose but by her inclusion of her own...
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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...
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The Twelve Little Cakes
by Dominika Dery Publisher Comments Equal parts testimony to the struggles of a bygone era and a love letter to a bright-eyed childhood that no outside force could dim, this is Dominika Dery's acclaimed memoir of Communist-era Czechoslovakia....
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Christopher R. Browning Publisher Comments The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews....
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With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia
by Asne Seierstad Publisher Comments From beloved international reporter Åsne Seierstad comes a remarkable exploration of the lives of ordinary Serbs under the regime of Slobodan Milosevic-during the dramatic events leading up to his fall, and finally in the troubled years that have...
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To the Castle and Back (Vintage)
by Vaclav Havel Synopsis From the former president of the Czech Republic comes this first-hand account of his years in office and the transition to democracy following the fall of Communism. A renowned playwright, Vaclav Havel became one of Czechoslovakia's most prominent...
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Bosnia a Short History
by Noel Malcolm Synopsis This work aims to set the war in the Balkans in its full historical and political context. This edition includes a chapter covering the events between 1993 and 1995....
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Balkan Ghosts : a Journey Through History (05 Edition)
by Robert D. Kaplan Publisher Comments "In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. That November, while the world danced in the rubble of the wall, a journalist named Robert Kaplan was in Kosovo watching a riot between ethnic Serbs and Albanians. The future, Kaplan wrote, was not in a reuniting Germany...
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Balkan Ghosts a Journey Through History
by Robert D Kaplan Publisher Comments From the assassination that set off World War I to the ethnic warfare sweeping Bosnia and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the 20th century--the place where terrorism and genocide were first practiced as tools of policy. This enthralling...
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To the Castle and Back (07 Edition)
by Havel Publisher Comments As writer, dissident, and statesman, Václav Havel played an essential part in the profound changes that occurred in Central Europe during the last decades of the twentieth century, and became a powerful intellectual and political force for the...
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Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetr
by Peter Demetz Publisher Comments A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia’s great capital during the Nazi Protectorate With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of Central European history, the great scholar Peter...
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Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West
by David Rieff Publisher Comments In a shocking and deeply disturbing tour de force, David Rieff, reporting from the Bosnia war zone and from Western capitals and United Nations headquarters, indicts the West and the United Nations for standing by and doing nothing to stop the genocide...
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White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-20 and 'The Miracle on the Vistula'
by Norman Davies Publisher Comments In White Eagle, Red Star, distinguished historian Norman Davies gives us a full account of the Polish-Soviet War, with its dramatic climax in August 1920 when the Red Army—sure of victory and pledged to carry the Revolution across Europe —was...
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The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944
by Lucjan Dobroszycki Synopsis A devastating, day-by-day record of life in the second-largest Jewish ghetto Nazi Europe a community that was reduced from 163,177 people in 1941 to 877 by 1944. Compiled by inhabitants of the ghetto and illustrated with more than seventy haunting...
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Dubrovnik: A History
by Robin Harris Publisher Comments "Detailed, scholarly and eminently readable, Dubrovnikis a triumph of book production. This is a splendid volume."-The Literary Review"There are few introductions to the city's past available to general readers . . . Harris'splendid study meets this need...
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Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad
by John R. Schindler Publisher Comments Al-Qa’ida: in the 80s they were in Afghanistan, supported by America and fighting the Russians. In the new century they have metastasized throughout the world’s geopolitical body. Where were they in the 90s? Unholy Terror provides the...
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Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe 900-1300
by Susan Reynolds Publisher Comments Contending that medieval attitudes and behavior have been too readily defined in terms of hierarchical structures of government, clerical thought, and a narrow notion of kinship, Reynolds streses the powerful horizontal bonds of association that...
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Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina
by Alexandra (edt) Stiglmayer Publisher Comments Alexandra Stiglmayer interviewed survivors of the continuing war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in order to reveal, to a seemingly deaf world, the horrors of the ongoing war in the former Yugoslavia. The women—primarily of Muslim but also of Croatian and...
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Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995
by Joe Sacco
Powells.com Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman'...
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Rumania 1866-1947 (Oxford History of Modern Europe)
by Keith Hitchins Publisher Comments This latest volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of Modern Europe series looks at the collapse of Communist power which has once again focused attention on the processes of nation-building in central and eastern Europe. In this comprehensive study...
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