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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 $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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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 $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From Stalinism to Pluralism: A Documentary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945 by Gale Stokes Publisher Comments Bringing together a wealth of historical documents, memoirs, essays, and literature from Eastern Europe, this highly successful book vividly illustrates how the most original and challenging minds of the region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 $35.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bridge at Andau by James A Michener Publisher Comments At four o'clock in the morning on a Sunday in November 1956, the city of Budapest was awakened by the shattering sound of Russian tanks tearing the city apart. The Hungarian revolution -- five brief, glorious days of freedom that had yielded a glimpse at... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Hungary '56 by Andy Anderseon Publisher Comments The seminal history and analysis of the Hungarian Revolution and the workers' councils, perhaps the single most important revolutionary event ever, and this is simply the best book on it.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949 (Annals of Communism) by Georgi Dimitrov Publisher Comments Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949) was a high-ranking Bulgarian and Soviet official, one of the most prominent leaders of the international Communist movement and a trusted member of Stalin's inner circle. Accused by the Nazis of setting the Reichstag fire in... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Magic Lantern : the Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague , With New Afterword (93 Edition) by Timothy Garton Ash Publisher Comments The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a history moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections--in which Solidarity found itself in the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Freedom for Publishing, Publishing for Freedom: The Central and East European Publishing Project by Timothy Garton Ash Publisher Comments The Oxford-based Central and East European Publishing Project was a remarkable initiative to support embattled Central and East European publishers and journals. Throughout the nine years of its existence it helped to punch holes through the cultural... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Century of State Murder?: Death and Policy in Twentieth-Century Russia by Michael Haynes Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-254) and index.... (read more) List Price $39.75 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Guerrilla Radio: Rock 'n' Roll Radio and Serbia's Underground Resistance by Matthew Collin Publisher Comments This is a book about a group of Belgrade's young idealists and their pirate radio station B92, who began with the naive desire to simply play music, but ended up facing two wars, economic sanctions, violent police and government crackdowns, the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Romania: Borderland of Europe (Topographics) by Lucian Boia Publisher Comments Romania occupies a unique position on the map of Eastern Europe. It is a country that presents many paradoxes. In this book the preeminent Romanian historian Lucian Boia examines his native land's development from the Middle Ages to modern times... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Balkans Nationalism War & the Great Powe by Misha Glenny Synopsis In a timely, passionate survey of Balkan history since the early 19th century, an award-winning journalist chronicles the essential background of the recent terrible events in this war-torn region. 12 maps.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley Publisher Comments In the spring of 1999, the world watched as more than 800,000 Kosovo Albanians poured over Kosovo's borders, bringing with them stories of torture, rape, and massacre. One year later, Paula Huntley's husband signed on with the American Bar Association to... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Bulgaria Country Studies: Area Handbook by Glenn E Curtis Publisher Comments 2d edition. Edited by Glenn E. Curtis. Research completed June 1992. Describes and analyzes the history, politics, economics, sociology, and national security systems of Bulgaria.... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $6.80 Used - Hardcover
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Kosovo : War and Revenge (2ND 02 Edition) by Tim Judah Publisher Comments Second edition analysis of the origins of the Serb-Albanian conflict. 42 illus.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Serbs: History, Myth, and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah Publisher Comments In a wide-ranging, scholarly, and highly readable account which begins with a battle lost more than six centuries ago--Judah examines the tenuous ethnic balance fashioned by Tito and its unraveling after his death. Presenting the first in-depth account... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Concise History of Bulgaria 2ND Edition by Rj Crampton Publisher Comments Richard Crampton presents a general introduction to Bulgaria at the cross-roads of Christendom and Islam. This concise history traces the country's growth from pre-history, through its days as the center of a powerful medieval empire and five centuries... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $20.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Black Book of Bosnia: The Consequences of Appeasement by Nader Mousavizadeh Publisher Comments The war in the former Yugoslavia has shamed the leading nations of the world. Unspeakable crimes against humanity have been committed in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia, yet American and European policymakers have cravenly stood aside while whole villages and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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To End a War (Modern Library) by Richard Holbrooke Publisher Comments " One of the most important and readable diplomatic memoirs of recent times. . . . His account should restore some respect to the much maligned art of diplomacy." --The Washington Post " ... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Bulletins from Serbia: E-Mails and Cartoon Strips from Beyond the Front Line by Aleksandar Zograf Publisher Comments With an introduction by Terry Jones (Monty Python's Flying Circus) Aleksandar Zograf, an artist and cartoonist based in Pancevo, 15 kilometres outside Belgrade, Serbia, has been documenting the conflict in Yugoslavia since it first came into being in the... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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