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  • Georgia

    In the Mountains of Poetry

    by Peter Nasmyth ...
    "Elegiac, quirky, readable, deeply knowledgeable . . . The best cultural-historical introduction to that tempestuous land," the Georgian republic. (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs)Georgia has been called the world's most beautiful country, yet little is known about it beyond its borders. This topical and vital book by Peter Nasmyth, the "ideal chronicler" ( Literary Review) is the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Where the West Ends

    Stories From the Balkans, the Black Sea, and the Caucasus

    by Michael J. Totten ...
    Prize-winning author Michael J. Totten returns with a masterpiece of travel writing and history in this journey through thirteen nations—all but two formerly communist—just beyond the edge of the West where few casual travelers venture. His work as an independent foreign correspondent takes him deep into the field beyond the sensational headlines, from his hilariously miserable road trip through ... Read more

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  • In Europe's Shadow

    Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    **“Sweeping and replete with alluring detail . . . [a] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human condition as found in Romania.”—Alison Smale, The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Let Our Fame Be Great

    Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus

    by Oliver Bullough ...
    The jagged peaks of the Caucasus Mountains have hosted a rich history of diverse nations, valuable trade, and incessant warfare. But today the region is best known for atrocities in Chechnya and the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia.In Let Our Fame Be Great, journalist and Russian expert Oliver Bullough explores the fascinating cultural crossroads of the Caucasus, where Europe, Asia, and the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Once Upon a Yugoslavia

    When the American Way Met Tito's Third Way

    by Surya Green ...
    It is 1968. Across America, citizens march for social reform and an end to the Vietnam War. Amid all this, Surya Green⎯a New York-born, self-absorbed, modern young woman⎯is a student at Stanford University, blithely pursuing a graduate degree in communication. Her view of life's purpose unexpectedly starts to expand when she says "Yes" when her Stanford film mentor selects her for a writing job at ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Scourge of God

    by Miklos Josika ...
    "The Scourge of God" tells the tale of the terrible Tartar invasion of Hungary during the reign of Bela IV. (1235-1270), when the Mongol hordes devastated Magyarland from end to end. Baron Miklos Josika (1796–1865), the Walter Scott of Hungary, was born at Torda, in Transylvania, on April 28th, 1796. While a child, he lost both his parents, and was brought up at the house and under the care of ... Read more

    $2.72 USD

  • The House with the Stained-Glass Window

    by Zanna Sloniowska ...
    Translated by Antonia Lloyd Jones ...
    Series Book 7 - MacLehose Press Editions
    "Zanna Sloniowska writes beautifully; with empathy, sensitivity, and with real political impact . . . an important new voice in Polish literature" OLGA TOKARCZUK, Nobel Prize-winning author of Flights"Remarkable, a gripping, Lvivian evocation of a city and a family across a long and painful century . . . A novel of life and survival across the ages" PHILIPPE SANDS, author of East West StreetAmid ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 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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  • Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia

    by Alfred J. Rieber ...
    This is a major new study of the successor states that emerged in the wake of the collapse of the great Russian, Habsburg, Iranian, Ottoman and Qing Empires and of the expansionist powers who renewed their struggle over the Eurasian borderlands through to the end of the Second World War. Surveying the great power rivalry between the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan for control over ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Wandering Jew

    The Search for Joseph Roth

    by Dennis Marks ...
    Joseph Roth, best known as the author of the novel The Radetzky March and the nonfiction work The Wandering Jews, was one of the most seductive, disturbing, and enigmatic writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1894 in the Habsburg Empire in what is now Ukraine and dying in Paris in 1939, he was a perpetually displaced person, a traveler, a prophet, a compulsive liar, and a man who covered his ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A Journey to St. Petersburg and Moscow through Courland and Livonia.

    by Leitch Ritchie ...
    Series series Elibron Classics
    Elibron Classics. Replica of 1836 edition by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, London.In 1835 Leitch Ritchie (1800–1865) a Scottish novelist and journalist took a trip to Russia.
He hoped to become acquainted with Modern Russia, and to be enabled to form some idea of the real progress of her civilization, in so far at least, as this is indicated in the manners of the people; at ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Castles and Fortresses in Transylvania: Alba County

    by Liviu Stoica, Gheorghe Stoica, Gabriela Popa ...
    Series series Castles and Fortresses in Transylvania
    The castles and fortresses built in Transylvania represent genuine treasures and are a living proof that this land was blessed, becoming almost a fascinating attraction for the people who settled in these places, lived on them and defended them. The centuries-old magic that has reached us like a bright light from medieval times, documents, as well as archeological sites, has also enveloped us, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD