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Revolution 1989
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Written by Victor Sebestyen
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $30.00
From the author of Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution comes a revealing new account of the collapse of the Soviet Union’s European empire during months of largely peaceful revolution that profoundly changed the world.
At the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By... Read more >
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Written by Victor Sebestyen
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $30.00
From the author of Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution comes a revealing new account of the collapse of the Soviet Union’s European empire during months of largely peaceful revolution that profoundly changed the world.
At the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By... Read more >
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Written by Neil Sheehan
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $32.00
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold... Read more >
Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Written by Neil Sheehan
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $32.00
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold... Read more >
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Written by Neil Sheehan
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $32.00
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold... Read more >
Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Written by Neil Sheehan
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $32.00
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold... Read more >
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Written by Neil Sheehan
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $55.00
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold... Read more >
Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Written by Neil Sheehan
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $55.00
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold... Read more >
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Written by Neil Sheehan
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $27.50
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold... Read more >
Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Written by Neil Sheehan
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $27.50
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold... Read more >
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The Sisters of Sinai
Written by Janet Soskice
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $27.95
In 1892, two sisters, identical twins from Scotland, made one of one of most important scriptural discoveries of modern times. Combing the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai, they found a neglected palimpsest: beneath an unpreposessing life of female saints, they detected what remains to this day among the... Read more >
Written by Janet Soskice
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $27.95
In 1892, two sisters, identical twins from Scotland, made one of one of most important scriptural discoveries of modern times. Combing the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai, they found a neglected palimpsest: beneath an unpreposessing life of female saints, they detected what remains to this day among the... Read more >
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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"
How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Written by Patrick J. Buchanan
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $20.00
Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment?
In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen–Winston Churchill first among them–the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust... Read more >
How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Written by Patrick J. Buchanan
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $20.00
Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment?
In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen–Winston Churchill first among them–the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust... Read more >
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The Guns of August
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $7.99
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Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $7.99
Read more >
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World War II Behind Closed Doors
Stalin, the Nazis, and the West
Written by Laurence Rees
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $35.00
In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees, winner of the 2006 British Book Award for History, documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted some of the most crucial decisions made during the conflict.
Drawing on material available only since opening of archives... Read more >
Stalin, the Nazis, and the West
Written by Laurence Rees
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $35.00
In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees, winner of the 2006 British Book Award for History, documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted some of the most crucial decisions made during the conflict.
Drawing on material available only since opening of archives... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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World War II Behind Closed Doors
Stalin, the Nazis and the West
Written by Laurence Rees
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $35.00
In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees, winner of the 2006 British Book Award for History, documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted some of the most crucial decisions made during the conflict.
Drawing on material available only since opening of archives... Read more >
Stalin, the Nazis and the West
Written by Laurence Rees
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $35.00
In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees, winner of the 2006 British Book Award for History, documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted some of the most crucial decisions made during the conflict.
Drawing on material available only since opening of archives... Read more >
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
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In Europe
Travels Through the Twentieth Century
Written by Geert Mak
Format: eBook, 896 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2009
Price: $20.00
Geert Mak spent the year of 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. The result... Read more >
Travels Through the Twentieth Century
Written by Geert Mak
Format: eBook, 896 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2009
Price: $20.00
Geert Mak spent the year of 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. The result... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Witness
One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story
Written by Ruth Gruber
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $27.50
With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words and photographs.
Gruber’s life has been extraordinary and extraordinarily heroic. She... Read more >
One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story
Written by Ruth Gruber
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $27.50
With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words and photographs.
Gruber’s life has been extraordinary and extraordinarily heroic. She... Read more >
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hardcover.
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A Sniper in the Arizona
2nd Battalion, 5th Marines in the Arizona Territory, 1967
Written by John Culbertson
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $7.99
"Morning was always a welcome sight to us. It meant two things. The first was that we were still alive. . . ."
In 1967, death was the constant companion of the Marines of Hotel Company, 2/5, as they patrolled the paddy dikes, mud, and mountains of the Arizona Territory southwest of Da... Read more >
2nd Battalion, 5th Marines in the Arizona Territory, 1967
Written by John Culbertson
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $7.99
"Morning was always a welcome sight to us. It meant two things. The first was that we were still alive. . . ."
In 1967, death was the constant companion of the Marines of Hotel Company, 2/5, as they patrolled the paddy dikes, mud, and mountains of the Arizona Territory southwest of Da... Read more >
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Last Man Out
A Personal Account of the Vietnam War
Written by James E. Parker, Jr.
Format: eBook, 360 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $19.00
"I WAS AMONG THE FIRST MEN IN,
AND I WAS THE LAST MAN OUT."
In Vietnam, at both the start and finish of the conflict, 2d Lt. James E. Parker Jr. saw the war as few men did. Now, with uncommon insight and raw honesty, he captures the stark realities of jungle... Read more >
A Personal Account of the Vietnam War
Written by James E. Parker, Jr.
Format: eBook, 360 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $19.00
"I WAS AMONG THE FIRST MEN IN,
AND I WAS THE LAST MAN OUT."
In Vietnam, at both the start and finish of the conflict, 2d Lt. James E. Parker Jr. saw the war as few men did. Now, with uncommon insight and raw honesty, he captures the stark realities of jungle... Read more >
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Baptism
A Vietnam Memoir
Written by Larry Gwin
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $7.99
"The 2nd Battalion of the 7th Cavalry had the dubious distinction of being the unit that had fought the biggest battle of the war to date, and had suffered the worst casualties. We and the 1st Battalion."
A Yale graduate who volunteered to serve his country, Larry Gwin was only twenty-three years... Read more >
A Vietnam Memoir
Written by Larry Gwin
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $7.99
"The 2nd Battalion of the 7th Cavalry had the dubious distinction of being the unit that had fought the biggest battle of the war to date, and had suffered the worst casualties. We and the 1st Battalion."
A Yale graduate who volunteered to serve his country, Larry Gwin was only twenty-three years... Read more >
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Class-29
The Making of U.S. Navy SEALs
Written by John Carl Roat
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $6.99
"Throughout training I kept having the thought,
WELL, ALL THEY CAN DO IS KILL ME.
It seemed to help."
SEALs are the world's toughest soldiers. Working in squads and platoons that make up SEAL teams, they are trained in everything from underwater demolition to high-altitude parachute drops. Now John Carl Roat, graduate of Class-29... Read more >
The Making of U.S. Navy SEALs
Written by John Carl Roat
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $6.99
"Throughout training I kept having the thought,
WELL, ALL THEY CAN DO IS KILL ME.
It seemed to help."
SEALs are the world's toughest soldiers. Working in squads and platoons that make up SEAL teams, they are trained in everything from underwater demolition to high-altitude parachute drops. Now John Carl Roat, graduate of Class-29... Read more >
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paperback.
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Phantom Warriors
Book I: LRRPs, LRPs, and Rangers in Vietnam
Written by Gary Linderer
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $7.99
Read more >
Book I: LRRPs, LRPs, and Rangers in Vietnam
Written by Gary Linderer
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $7.99
Read more >
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paperback.
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Freedom's Battle
The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
Written by Gary J. Bass
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $35.00
Why do we sometimes let evil happen to others and sometimes rally to stop it? Whose lives matter to us? These are the key questions posed in this important and perceptive study of the largely forgotten nineteenth-century “atrocitarians”—some of the world’s first human rights activists. Wildly romantic, eccentrically educated, and full... Read more >
The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
Written by Gary J. Bass
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $35.00
Why do we sometimes let evil happen to others and sometimes rally to stop it? Whose lives matter to us? These are the key questions posed in this important and perceptive study of the largely forgotten nineteenth-century “atrocitarians”—some of the world’s first human rights activists. Wildly romantic, eccentrically educated, and full... Read more >
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Agent Zigzag
A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Written by Ben Macintyre
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $14.95
“Ben Macintyre’s rollicking, spellbinding Agent Zigzag blends the spy-versus-
spy machinations of John le Carré with the high farce of Evelyn Waugh.”
—William Grimes, The New York Times
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Book of 2007
One of the Top 10 Best Books of 2007 (Entertainment Weekly)
New York... Read more >
A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Written by Ben Macintyre
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $14.95
“Ben Macintyre’s rollicking, spellbinding Agent Zigzag blends the spy-versus-
spy machinations of John le Carré with the high farce of Evelyn Waugh.”
—William Grimes, The New York Times
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Book of 2007
One of the Top 10 Best Books of 2007 (Entertainment Weekly)
New York... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
hardcover.
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Icon of Evil
Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam
Written by David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $26.00
A chilling, fascinating, and nearly forgotten historical figure is resurrected in a riveting work that links the fascism of the last century with the terrorism of our own. Written with verve and extraordinary access to primary sources in several languages, Icon of Evil is the definitive account of the man who... Read more >
Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam
Written by David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $26.00
A chilling, fascinating, and nearly forgotten historical figure is resurrected in a riveting work that links the fascism of the last century with the terrorism of our own. Written with verve and extraordinary access to primary sources in several languages, Icon of Evil is the definitive account of the man who... Read more >
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eBook.
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Churchill, Hitler and "The Unnecessary War"
How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Written by Patrick J. Buchanan
Read by Don Leslie
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $25.00
Were World Wars I and II–which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction–inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond man’s control? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental... Read more >
How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Written by Patrick J. Buchanan
Read by Don Leslie
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $25.00
Were World Wars I and II–which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction–inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond man’s control? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental... Read more >
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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"
How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Written by Patrick J. Buchanan
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $20.00
Were World Wars I and II—which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction—inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond men’s control? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental... Read more >
How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Written by Patrick J. Buchanan
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $20.00
Were World Wars I and II—which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction—inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond men’s control? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"
How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Written by Patrick J. Buchanan
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $29.95
Were World Wars I and II—which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction—inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond men’s control? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental... Read more >
How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Written by Patrick J. Buchanan
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $29.95
Were World Wars I and II—which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction—inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond men’s control? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Peace
The Biography of a Symbol
Written by Ken Kolsbun
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $25.00
As the boomer generation moves onward through the milestones of life, 1960s nostalgia holds tremendous meaning today. And nothing more eloquently symbolizes the counterculture era than the peace sign. How did this simple sketch become so powerful an image? Peace: The Biography of a Symbol tells the surprising story of the... Read more >
The Biography of a Symbol
Written by Ken Kolsbun
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $25.00
As the boomer generation moves onward through the milestones of life, 1960s nostalgia holds tremendous meaning today. And nothing more eloquently symbolizes the counterculture era than the peace sign. How did this simple sketch become so powerful an image? Peace: The Biography of a Symbol tells the surprising story of the... Read more >
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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 >
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
