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Budapest 1900 by John Lukacs Synopsis "Lukacs's book is a lyrical, sometimes dazzling, never merely nostalgic evocation of a glorious period in the city's history. . . . {His} true sympathy lies . . . not with the famous expatriates, but with the writers and intellectuals who lived and died... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Collapse of Yugoslavia, 1991-1999 (04 Edition) by Alastair Finlan Publisher Comments In 1991, an ethnically diverse region that had enjoyed decades of peaceful coexistence descended into bitter hatred and chaos, almost overnight. Communities fractured along lines of ethnic and religious affiliation and the ensuing fighting was deeply... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - 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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Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz by Jan T. Gross Publisher Comments Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives as a result. More than half the casualties were Polish Jews. Thus, the second largest Jewish community in the world &... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century--And After by R J Crampton Publisher Comments The second edition of "Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century" is an ideal introduction to an important area which is as diverse and diffuse as it is interesting and important. Richard Crampton extends his coverage through the revolutions of 1989-1991... (read more) List Price $43.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazis by Karoli Lanckoronska Publisher Comments In September of 1939, Countess Karolina Lanckoronska, wealthy landowner and professor of art history, watched the Soviet army march into Poland. After joining the resistance, she was arrested, sentenced to death, and held in Ravensbruck concentration... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Final Revolution: The Resistance Church & the Collapse of Communism by George Weigel Publisher Comments The collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe--the Revolution of 1989--was a singularly stunning event in a century already known for the unexpected. How did people divided for two generations by an Iron Curtain come so suddenly to dance... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century by John V A Fine Publisher Comments Discusses the development of ethnic nationalism among Bulgars, Croatians, Serbians, and Macedonians... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea by Claudio Magris Publisher Comments In Danube the author sets his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, of Christendom and Islam. In this journey through the history and culture of the Danube lands, Claudio Magris, whose... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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True Tales from Here and There by Gabe G Kubichek Publisher Comments TRUE TALES From Here and There is a collection of stories, some biographical, some autobiographical; all of them having been safely stored in the memory bank of the author for years. He was inspired by his father's adventure in Russia and specifically in... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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People of the Storm God: Travels in Macedonia (Lost & Found) by Will Myer Publisher Comments Travelling in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and the newly independent Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Myer encounters a bewildering array of political and cultural opinions-Orthodox Christians and Muslims, communists and nationalists, warlords and... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague 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 $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Suitcase: Refugee Voices from Bosnia & Croatia by Julie Mertus Publisher Comments The whirlwind of Europe's longest war in half a century has produced this powerful collection of personal narratives--essays, letters, and poems--from refugees fleeing Bosnia and Croatia. Taking us behind the barrage of media coverage, these stories tell... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European City by Peter Demetz Publisher Comments Prague is at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history, but few people truly understand this city's unique culture. In Prague in Black and Gold, Peter Demetz strips away sentimentalities and distortions and shows how Czechs... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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When History Is a Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina by Stevan M Weine Book News Annotation Weine, a psychiatrist who spent six years working with Bosnian refugees, investigates survivors' attempts to reconcile their remembrances of living together in a cherished multiethnic society with the memories of horrific ethnic atrocities. He explore... (read more) List Price $33.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Land Without Justice by Milovan Dilas Publisher Comments The autobiography of the youth of the former Vice Presiden of Yugoslovia, which is also the story of a little-know land, Montenegro. Introduction and notes by William Jovanovich. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians 1848-1849 by Istvan Deak Synopsis Hungary's War of Independence was the bloodiest conflict of a European revolutionary era. This is the story of its revolution in 1848 when the nobleman Louis Kossuth attempted to restore the sovereignty of the country under the Habsburg Crown.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.95 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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Politics of Greed: How Privatization Structured Politics in Central and Eastern Europe (World Social Change) by Andrew Harrison Schwartz Publisher Comments An in-depth political history of privatization in Central and Eastern Europe, The Politics of Greed demonstrates that the way that assets are privatized matters, both with respect to national economic performance and the successful development of the... (read more) List Price $51.25 Your price: $28.00 Used - Trade Paper
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