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Uncivil Society
Uncivil Society
Written by Stephen Kotkin, Contribution by Jan Gross
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780679642763
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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... Read more >
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Uncivil Society
Uncivil Society
Written by Stephen Kotkin, Contribution by Jan Gross
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781588369178
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Uncivil Society
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Written by Stephen Kotkin
Contribution by Jan Gross


Format: eBook
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... Read more >
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A Chosen Few
A Chosen Few
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307482891
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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... Read more >
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The Balkans
The Balkans
Written by Mark Mazower
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307431967
Our Price: $13.95
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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... Read more >
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Fear
Fear
Written by Jan Gross
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307430960
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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... Read more >
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A Question of Honor
A Question of Honor
Written by Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307424501
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A Question of Honor
The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II
Written by Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud


Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.00

A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known, and brilliantly told story of the scores of Polish fighter pilots who helped save England during the Battle of Britain and of their stunning betrayal by the United States and England at the end of World War II.

Centering on five pilots of the... Read more >
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Twelve Days
Twelve Days
Written by Victor Sebestyen
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307277954
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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... Read more >
Fear
Fear
Written by Jan Gross
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812967463
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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... Read more >
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Fear
Fear
Written by Jan Gross
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375509247
Our Price: $25.95
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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... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.
A Question of Honor
A Question of Honor
Written by Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375726255
Our Price: $17.00
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A Question of Honor
The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II
Written by Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud


Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $17.00

A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known story of the refugee Polish pilots who joined the RAF and played an essential role in saving Britain from the Nazis, only to be betrayed by the Allies after the war.

After Poland fell to the Nazis, thousands of Polish pilots, soldiers, and sailors... Read more >
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My Century
My Century
Written by Aleksander Wat, Translated by Richard Lourie, Foreword by Czeslaw Milosz
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781590170656
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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--... Read more >
Home to Stay
Home to Stay
Written by Daniel Gordis
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400049592
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Home to Stay
One American Family's Chronicle of Miracles and Struggles in Contemporary Israel
Written by Daniel Gordis


Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $13.95

In the summer of 1998, Daniel Gordis and his family moved to Israel from Los Angeles. They planned to be there for a year, but a few months into their stay, Gordis and his wife decided to remain in Jerusalem permanently, confident that their children would be among the first generation... Read more >
A Question of Honor
A Question of Honor
Written by Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375411977
Our Price: $29.95
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A Question of Honor
The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II
Written by Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud


Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2003
Price: $29.95

A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known, and brilliantly told story of the scores of Polish fighter pilots who helped save England during the Battle of Britain and of their stunning betrayal by the United States and England at the end of World War II.

Centering on five pilots of the... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.
The Balkans
The Balkans
Written by Mark Mazower
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812966213
Our Price: $13.95
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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... Read more >
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A Chosen Few
A Chosen Few
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780345448149
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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... Read more >
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