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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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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: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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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... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo by Peter Andreas Book News Annotation Andreas (political science and international studies, Brown U.) describes the imposition, maintenance, lifting, and aftermath of the longest siege in modern history, lasting from 1992 to 1995. In addition to its intrinsic interest, he says, the United... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Dubrovnik: A History by Robin Harris Publisher Comments Trade paperback. A comprehensive history of Dubrovnik's progress over twelve centuries of European development, encompassing arts, architecture, social and economic changes and the traumas of war and politics.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life by George Konrad Publisher Comments A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals. When George Konrád was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed to flee to Budapest from the Hungarian countryside the day... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (Vintage) by Victor Sebestyen Publisher Comments Twelve Days is a riveting day-by-day account of the defining moment of the Cold War—the inspiring but brutally crushed Hungarian Uprising. Victor Sebestyen, a journalist whose own family fled Hungary, gives us a totally fresh account, incorporating... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Romantic Education (99 Edition) by Patricia Hampl Publisher Comments Golden Prague seemed mostly gray when Patricia Hampl first went there in quest of her Czech heritage. In that bleak time, no one could have predicted the political upheaval awaiting Communist Europe and the city of Kafka and Rilke. Hampl's subsequent... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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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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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