Uncivil Society
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Written by Stephen Kotkin
Contribution by Jan Gross
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.00
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this...
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A Chosen Few
The Resurrection of European Jewry
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $15.00
A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN
IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR
Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish...
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The Balkans
A Short History
Written by Mark Mazower
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
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...
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Fear
Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz
Written by Jan Gross
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.95
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–only American Jewry numbered more than the three and a half...
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Twelve Days
The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Written by Victor Sebestyen
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $15.95
Twelve Days is a riveting day-by-day account of the defining moment of the Cold War—the inspiring but brutally crushed Hungarian Uprising.
Victor Sebestyen, a journalist whose own family fled Hungary, gives us a totally fresh account, incorporating newly released official documents, his family's diaries, and eyewitness testimony. We witness the thrilling...
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Fear
Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz
Written by Jan Gross
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $15.95
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–only American Jewry numbered more than the three and a half...
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Fear
Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz
Written by Jan Gross
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2006
Price: $25.95
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–only American Jewry numbered more than the three and a half...
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My Century
Written by Aleksander Wat
Translated by Richard Lourie
Foreword by Czeslaw Milosz
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: December 31, 2003
Price: $16.95
In
My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz,
My Century describes the artistic, sexual, and political experimentation --in which Wat was a major participant--...
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The Balkans
A Short History
Written by Mark Mazower
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 6, 2002
Price: $13.95
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. In this highly acclaimed short history, Mark Mazower sheds light on what has been called the tinderbox of Europe, whose troubles have...
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A Chosen Few
The Resurrection of European Jewry
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2002
Price: $15.00
A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN
IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR
Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish...
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eBook.