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  • The Romanian Battlefront in World War I

    by Glenn E. Torrey ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    Winner: Norman B. Tomlinson Book PrizeDespite a strategically vulnerable position, an ill-prepared army, and questionable promises of military support from the Allied Powers, Romania intervened in World War I in August 1916. In return, it received the Allies’ formal sanction for the annexation of the Romanian-inhabited regions of Austria-Hungary. As Glenn Torrey reveals in his pathbreaking study, ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

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  • The Eastern Front 1914–1920

    From Tannenberg to the Russo-Polish War

    by Professor Michael S Neiberg, David Jordan ...
    Series series History of WWI
    The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns of the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the World War I series provides a six-volume history of the battles and campaigns that raged on land, at sea and in the air.In 1914, the autocratic Russian Empire was allied to ... Read more

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  • The Balkans

    A Short History

    by Mark Mazower ...
    Series Book 3 - Modern Library Chronicles
    Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Subject to violent shifts of borders, rulers and belief systems at the hands of the world's great empires--from the Byzantine to the Habsburg and Ottoman--the Balkans are often called Europe's ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Sniper on the Eastern Front

    The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights Cross

    by Albrecht Wacker ...
    A biography of the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honored with the Knights Cross award.An Austrian conscript who qualified as a Wehrmacht machine gunner, Josef "Sepp" Allerberger was drafted to the southern sector of the Russian Front in July 1942. Wounded at Voroshilovsk, he experimented with a Russian sniper-rifle while ... Read more

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  • Operation Nemesis

    The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

    by Eric Bogosian ...
    A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide set in the context of Ottoman and Armenian history."A dramatic work of history that reads like a thriller." —Michael Bobelian, Los Angeles TimesIn 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch: an ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Yugoslav Wars (2)

    Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia 1992–2001

    by Nigel Thomas, K Mikulan ...
    Series Book 146 - Elite
    Following the death of the Yugoslavian President Tito in 1980, the semi-autonomous republics and provinces that he had welded into a multi-cultural nation in 1945 slid gradually towards separation.For ten years following 1991, the world watched in horror as a series of bloody wars ripped a modern European state apart, and the intolerable spectacle eventually forced international intervention ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Forgotten Land

    Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia

    by Max Egremont ...
    Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire's farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Now it lives only in history and in myth. Since 1945, the territory has been divided between Poland and Russia, stretching from the border between Russia and Lithuania in the east and south, and through Poland in the west. In ... Read more

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  • New Perspectives on Yugoslavia

    Key Issues and Controversies

    Edited by James Ker-Lindsay, Dejan Djokić ...
    Nearly twenty years after it ceased to exist as a multinational federation, Yugoslavia still has the power to provoke controversy and debate. Bringing together contributions from twelve of the leading scholars of modern and contemporary South East Europe, this volume explores the history of Yugoslavia from creation to dissolution.Drawing on the very latest historical research, this book explains ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Sobibor

    A History of a Nazi Death Camp

    by Jules Schelvis ...
    Translated by Karin Dixon ...
    Auschwitz. Treblinka. The very names of these Nazi camps evoke unspeakable cruelty. Sobibör is less well known, and this book discloses the horrors perpetrated there.Established in German-occupied Poland, the camp at Sobibör began its dreadful killing operation in May 1942. By October 1943, approximately 167,000 people had been murdered there. Sobibör is not well documented and, were it not for an ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Ukrainian Armies 1914–55

    by Peter Abbott, Eugene Pinak ...
    Series Book 412 - Men-at-Arms
    A detailed, illustrated study of the Ukrainian armed forces, their weapons, dress and equipment from the First to the Second World War and beyond.There can be no region in Europe whose history has been more tortured than Ukraine. During the 20th century Austria, Poland, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania vied for power over parts of this vast and fragmented area; and its divided ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • St. Petersburg

    by Jonathan Miles ...
    Established in 1703 by the sheer will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac Peter the Great, St. Petersburg's dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly cemented by the sadistic dominion of its early rulers. This city, in its successive incarnations—St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad and, once again, St. Petersburg—has always been a place of perpetual contradiction.It was a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • History of the Balkans

    by Ferdinand Schevill ...
    THIS book is concerned with the story of man on the southeastern projection of Europe, known as the Balkan peninsula. For practical purposes the story begins with the Greeks, because the Greeks, though not the original inhabitants of the peninsula, were the first to leave a clear record of themselves and their neighbors. From the Hellenic period, when the mists hiding the land from view begin to ... Read more

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