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Eastern Europe
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
by Isabel Fonseca

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After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania — listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become... (read more)

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The Twelve Little Cakes The Twelve Little Cakes
by Dominika Dery

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Equal parts testimony to the struggles of a bygone era and a love letter to a bright-eyed childhood that no outside force could dim, this is Dominika Dery's acclaimed memoir of Communist-era Czechoslovakia.... (read more)

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The Bridge on the Drina The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andric

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The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable... (read more)

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My War Gone By, I Miss It So My War Gone By, I Miss It So
by Anthony Loyd

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"A truly exceptional...account of his time in the Balkans and Chechnya....I read [Loyd's] story of war and addiction (to conflict and to heroin) with a sense of gratitude for the honesty and courage on every page." Independent (UK)"... (read more)

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Balkan Ghosts a Journey Through History Balkan Ghosts a Journey Through History
by Robert D Kaplan

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From the assassination that set off World War I to the ethnic warfare sweeping Bosnia and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the 20th century--the place where terrorism and genocide were first practiced as tools of policy. This enthralling... (read more)

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Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetr Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetr
by Peter Demetz

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A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia’s great capital during the Nazi Protectorate With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of Central European history, the great scholar Peter... (read more)

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Polish Traditions, Customs, and Folklore Polish Traditions, Customs, and Folklore
by Sophie Hodorow Knab

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Polish Customs, Traditions, & Folklore is organized by months beginning with December and Advent, St. Nicholas Day, the Wigilia (Christmas Eve) nativity plays, caroling and then New Year celebrations. It proceeds from the Shrovetide period to Ash... (read more)

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Balkans : Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-1999 (99 Edition) Balkans : Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-1999 (99 Edition)
by Misha Glenny

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"The first comprehensive history of the relationship in the modern era between the great powers and the various Balkan peoples." (San Francisco Chronicle) This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives... (read more)

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The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
by Timothy Garton Ash

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The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a history moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections--in which Solidarity found itself in the... (read more)

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Concise History of Bulgaria 2ND Edition Concise History of Bulgaria 2ND Edition
by Rj Crampton

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Richard Crampton presents a general introduction to Bulgaria at the cross-roads of Christendom and Islam. This concise history traces the country's growth from pre-history, through its days as the center of a powerful medieval empire and five centuries... (read more)

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Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
by Robert D Kaplan

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"In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. That November, while the world danced in the rubble of the wall, a journalist named Robert Kaplan was in Kosovo watching a riot between ethnic Serbs and Albanians. The future, Kaplan wrote, was not in a reuniting Germany... (read more)

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The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
by Tina Rosenberg

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern... (read more)

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Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala
by Vaclav Havel

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An intimate history of Czechoslovakia under communism; a meditation on the social and political role of art, and a triumphant statement of the values underlying all the recent revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe.... (read more)

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How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed
by Slavenka Drakulic

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Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia.... (read more)

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A Concise History of Poland (Cambridge Concise Histories) A Concise History of Poland (Cambridge Concise Histories)
by Jerzy Lukowski

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Poland only sporadically makes the headlines of the Anglo-Saxon world, and its history remains comparatively unknown. It has suffered the dubious distinction of being wiped off the political map in 1795, to be resurrected after the First World War, to... (read more)

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Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazis Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazis
by Karoli Lanckoronska

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This brilliantly written memoir--of the author's arrest by the Nazis and imprisonment in Ravensbruck concentration camp--records a neglected side of World War II: the mass murder of Poles, the serial horrors inflicted by both Russians and Nazis, and the... (read more)

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Return To Diversity a Political Hist 3RD Edition Return To Diversity a Political Hist 3RD Edition
by Joseph Rothschild

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Since the death of Stalin, the supposedly monolithic character of the Socialist states of East Central Europe has been subjected to serious and major challenges: from Yugoslavia in the late 1940s, from East Germany, Poland, and Hungary in the '50s, from... (read more)

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With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia
by Asne Seierstad

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From beloved international reporter Åsne Seierstad comes a remarkable exploration of the lives of ordinary Serbs under the regime of Slobodan Milosevic-during the dramatic events leading up to his fall, and finally in the troubled years that have... (read more)

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Fools Rush in: A True Story of Love, War, and Redemption Fools Rush in: A True Story of Love, War, and Redemption
by Bill Carter

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Published in Britain to great acclaim — a startling, gut-wrenching memoir of war, personal dissolution, and rebirth — based on the author's experiences in Bosnia. When tragedy strikes Bill Carter's life he finds himself drawn to an unlikely... (read more)

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Cafe Europa: Life After Communism Cafe Europa: Life After Communism
by Slavenka Drakulic

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Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free-market economy and de jure democracy. But as Slavenka Drakulic observes, "in everyday life, the revolution consists much... (read more)

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