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“nick rutter”

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  • Cold War Crossings

    International Travel and Exchange across the Soviet Bloc, 1940s-1960s

    by Patryk Babiracki, Michael David-Fox, Nick Rutter, Elidor Mëhilli, Constantin Katsakioris, Marsha Siefert ...
    Series Book 45 - Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
    Approaching the early decades of the “Iron Curtain” with new questions and perspectives, this important book examines the political and cultural implications of the communists’ international initiatives. Building on recent scholarship and working from new archival sources, the seven contributors to this volume study various effects of international outreach—personal, technological, and cultural—on ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    and Other True Stories

    by Hanna Krall ...
    In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding place to the Germans. A young American man refuses to let go of the ghost of his half brother who ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion

    by Herman Bernstein ...
    This is the history of a Lie—of a cruel and terrible Lie invented for the purpose of defaming the entire Jewish people. Given out as fiction, by a German anti-Semitic writer, involved in the Waldeck forgery case, who concealed his identity under the pen-name of an Englishman, it was gradually changed and elaborated, and finally groomed as fact. Agents of the Russian secret police department and of ... Read more

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  • A Plea For Captain John Brown (Mobi Classics)

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    A Plea for Captain John Brown is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown's execution on December 2, 1859. It was later published as a part of Echoes of Harper's Ferry in 1860. Excerpted from Wikipedia, ... Read more

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  • Srebrenica. The days of shame

    by Luca Leone, Riccardo Noury ...
    Series series Inediti in e-book
    Srebrenica represents a dark and painful chapter in late twentieth-century European history. Here, a still unknown number of Bosnian Muslim citizens were tortured and killed in July 1995. About 8.500 deaths have so far been confirmed, but survivors say 10.701 people died as a result of the blind and racist violence of the Bosnian Serb army led by Ratko Mladic’ and mainly Serb paramilitary forces, ... Read more

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  • Founding a Balkan State

    Albania's Experiment with Democracy, 1920-1925

    by Robert Clegg Austin ...
    Founding a Balkan State examines the pivotal period in Albanian history when the country's fundamental goals and directions were most hotly contested. In 1920, liberal Albanian leaders – led by the US-educated Bishop Fan S. Noli – began working to introduce democracy to the country, hoping that it would lead to modernization, prosperity, and overturning the legacy of five hundred years of Ottoman ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • 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

  • Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter's Tribute

    by Marta Fuchs ...
    Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter’s Tribute is an illustrated intergenerational memoir of the author’s father, Morton (Miksa) Fuchs, and Zoltán Kubinyi, the Commanding Officer who saved him and over 100 other Hungarian Jewish men in forced labor under his command during the Holocaust.Captured as a POW by the liberating Russian Army, Zoltan Kubinyi, a devout Seventh Day Adventist, died a year later in a ... Read more

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  • The Pleasures of England

    by John Ruskin ...
    In The Pleasures of England, John Ruskin offers a detailed and passionate exploration of the unique beauty and historical significance of England. The work presents a philosophical examination of the landscape, architecture, and cultural heritage of the country, highlighting the ways in which the natural and built environments contribute to the joy and intellectual enrichment of its people. Ruskin ... Read more

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  • The Longest Trail

    Writings on American Indian History, Culture, and Politics

    by Alvin M. Josephy Jr. ...
    Alvin Josephy Jr.’s groundbreaking, popular books and essays advocated for a fair and true historical assessment of Native Americans, and set the course for modern Native American studies.This collection, which includes magazine articles, speeches, a white paper, and introductions and chapters of books, gives a generous and reasoned view of five hundred years of Indian history in North America ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Poland in the Modern World

    Beyond Martyrdom

    by Brian Porter-Szücs ...
    Series series A New History of Modern Europe
    Poland in the Modern World presents a history of the country from the late nineteenth century to the present, incorporating new perspectives from social and cultural history and positioning it in a broad global contextChallenges traditional accounts Poland that tend to focus on national, political history, emphasizing the country's 'exceptionalism'.Presents a lively, multi-dimensional story, ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • Poland and the Western Powers 1938-1938

    A Study in the Interdependence of Eastern and Western Europe

    by Anna M. Cienciala ...
    Series series Heritage
    This study has two objectives. The first is to explain the nature and historical roots of the problems facing Polish foreign policy in 1938–39 and the manner in which they were approached by the men who shaped and directed Polish diplomacy. The second is to illustrate the political interdependence in these years of Eastern and Western Europe. This interdependence hinged on the German problem. The ... Read more

    $35.99 USD