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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 $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $18.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ivo Andric 
Publisher Comments The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) check for new and sale copies
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by H Richard Friman Publisher Comments In the aftermath of four Yugoslav wars, ongoing efforts at reconstruction in South Eastern Europe have devoted relatively limited attention to dimensions of human security that enhance protections for the region's most vulnerable populations in their... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Wilson Publisher Comments Travel to one of the most beautiful cities in the world in the company of its finest writers. Walk the mysterious nighttime streets of Prague with Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek, eavesdrop on intimate conversations in restaurants and lively beer halls... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Korda Publisher Comments The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was not just an extraordinary and dramatic event-; perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War-; but, as we can now see fifty years later, a major turning point in history. Here is an eyewitness account, in the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Carter Publisher Comments Published in Britain to great acclaim--a startling, gut-wrenching memoir of war, personal dissolution, and rebirth based on the author's experiences in Bosnia.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Garth Cartwright Publisher Comments Garth Cartwright fuses travel and music writing as he travels through the Balkans, heading to Gypsy settlements that are not just off the beaten track but literally off the map. On his wild journey, Cartwright wanders through the ruins of post-Communist... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $12.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tina Rosenberg Publisher Comments The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mihail Sebastian Publisher Comments This book is a chronicle of the dark years of Nazism by the Romanian Jewish writer, Mihail Sebastian.... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Benjamin Weiser Publisher Comments For almost a decade, Col. Ryszard Kuklinski betrayed the Communist leadership of Poland, cooperating with the CIA in one of the most extraordinary intelligence operations of the Cold War. But even after freedom came to Poland, a riddle remained: was... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Swartz Publisher Comments A rich, literary portrait of Eastern Europe in... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Misha Glenny Publisher Comments "The first comprehensive history of the relationship in the modern era between the great powers and the various Balkan peoples." (San Francisco Chronicle) This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Lendvai Publisher Comments On October 23, 1956, a popular uprising against Soviet rule swept through Hungary like a force of nature, only to be mercilessly crushed by Soviet tanks twelve days later. Only now, fifty years after those harrowing events, can the full story be told... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Lendvai Publisher Comments The Hungarians is the most comprehensive, clear-sighted, and absorbing history ever of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as child-devouring cannibals and bloodthirsty Huns. But it wasn't long before the... (read more) Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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