451円 Emiliano D'Alessandro, through concrete narration, the obscure tragedy is told as seen by the protagonists, twelve thousand young men of the Italian army, the mamma’s boys of General Antonio Gandin who were stationed on the Greek island of Kefalonia. It was the month of September in 1943 when the...

1,200円 Un document inédit qui dévoile, pour la première fois, l'histoire d'un bien étrange procès ... Un véritable "Nuremberg du Communisme" qui n'aura finalement pas lieu. Pourquoi ? EXTRAIT Quoi qu’il en soit, ce putsch de 1991, qu’Andreï Gratchev qualifie de « pétard mouillé » fut pourtant décisif mê...

1,657円 Seemingly shy, Andrei Sakharov was in fact a man of three great passions. His passion for physics ultimately lead him to create the Soviet H-Bomb, making the USSR a super power. But he rejected all the position and prestige his inventions had brought him in the name of a greater passion ー for ju...

2,652円 From 1932 to 1933, a catastrophic famine, known as the Holodomor ("extermination by hunger"), raged through Ukraine, killing millions of people. Although the Soviet government denied it, news about the tragedy got out and Canadians came to learn about the famine from many, though often contradict...

300円 A Colina dos Fogos Fugazes de Emiliano D'Alessandro O único romance na Itália sobre o massacre de Cefalônia. Através de uma narração realista, Emiliano D'Alessandro conta a obscura tragédia que tem como protagonistas doze mil jovens do nosso exército real, os "filhos da mamãe" da Divisão Acqui do...

9,285円 Imperial Russia, 1801-1905 traces the development of the Russian Empire from the murder of 'mad Tsar Paul' to the reforms of the 1890s that were an attempt to modernise the autocratic state. This is essential reading for all students of the topic and provides a clear and concise introduction to t...

19,028円 Since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Armenia has experienced a reversal from democratization to a Soviet-style authoritarian regime and has been accused of repressive approaches to human rights. Here, Simon Payaslian juxtaposes a masterful survey of the history of the Armenian pe...

5,068円 The Yugoslav communist leaders aspired to create a socialist Yugoslavia, and when they came into power in 1945, they claimed to have introduced a socialist solution to the Yugoslav national question. But what did it imply to 'solve a national question' and what did introducing a 'socialist soluti...

7,739円 Whilst young ladies in the Victorian and Edwardian eras were expected to have many creative accomplishments, they were not expected to travel unaccompanied, and certainly not to the remote corners of Southeast Europe, then part of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. But Edith Durham was no ordinary lad...

3,761円 In the second half of the 19th century, two brothers living in Ukraine, both Hasidic rabbis, became fabulously wealthy within a short time period. They and their families were celebrated by the Jewish population in numerous folk tales. Even Sholom Aleichem, the great Yiddish storyteller, wrote a ...

85円 Central Asia is the hot new travel destination. Curious to see what all the fuss is about? Join intrepid traveler, Ged Gillmore, as he journeys with an unlikely group of characters on a whirlwind tour through the five ‘Stans – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. * Pre...

562円 It is just the beginning.