602円 The conflict on the Eastern Front in World War II was colossal in both scale and intensity, as the two infamous dictators of the twentieth century Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin vied for supremacy in Eastern Europe. On 22 June 1941 it was Hitler's fateful decision to launch the largest invasion ev...

4,643円 Inventing the Enemy uses stories of personal relationships to explore the behaviour of ordinary people during Stalin's terror. Communist Party leaders strongly encouraged ordinary citizens and party members to 'unmask the hidden enemy' and people responded by flooding the secret police and local ...

350円 …Toate însemnările câte le făcusem zi cu zi pe hârtie mi s-au pierdut. Multe amănunte s-au șters din amintirea mea, unele mi-au rămas prea confuze și poate că le-am uitat ordinea în care sau petrecut, dar multe mi s-au întipărit pentru totdeauna în suflet, vii și clare, parcă le-aș fi trăit ieri....

1,657円 Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook by Susan Rubin Suleiman (71,000 words and 2 photographs) Can you forget the place you once called home? What does it take to make you recapture it? In this moving memoir, Susan Rubin Suleiman describes her returns to the city of her birth ー where she s...

164円 This sketch of Tolstoy concentrates on the period of the later part of the 1860's, written twenty years after Schuyler, Tolstoy's first translator, met the Count. A good background piece.

1,867円 The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland’s first free parliamentary electionsーin which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of i...

496円 Tales of Fairies and of the Ghost World by Jeremiah Curtin "A fairy (also fey or fae or faerie; collectively, wee folk, good folk, people of peace, and other euphemisms) is the name given to an alleged metaphysical spirit or supernatural being. The fairy is based on the fae of medieval Western Eu...

200円 The Germans were masters of Blitzkrieg. But in the rubble of a ruined city, the Russians knew the troops of the Third Reich were reluctant to engage in the hand-to-hand battle that victory required. The Soviet soldiers were fearless; time was blood. The Red Army commander’s tactics were brutally ...

661円 Apariţia revistei „VITRALII...” - publicaţie a veteranilor din serviciile de informaţii secrete române - este expresia unui interes naţional, evident şi imperativ, conjugat cu o necesitate socială, stringentă şi conştientă. Interesul astfel exprimat derivă din datoria pe care, noi, veteran...

2,653円 A lyrical literary memoir that explores the exhilarating, discomforting, and ultimately healing process of Polish-Jewish reconciliation taking place in Poland today Although an estimated 80 percent of American Jews are of Polish descent, many in the postwar generation and those born later know li...

633円 In 1939 a stunned international community absorbed the news that Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, hated and implacable enemies, had signed a non-agression pact. The treaty between them contained a hidden clause, one which divided Poland between the two murderous regimes. This ebook explores the Na...

777円 "One of the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama." --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review As Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in the final decade of the Soviet empire, Michael Dobbs had a ringside seat to the extraordinary ev...