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The German Question and the Origins of the Cold War

by Nicolas Lewkowicz

The book analyses the role of the German Question in the origins of the Cold War. The work evaluates the transformation which occurred in Germany and the post-war international order due to the inter-Allied...


Tanks of Hitler's Eastern Allies 1941-45

by Steven Zaloga & Henry Morshead

The titanic armor battles of the Russian Front are widely known, but the role of Germany's eastern allies is not as well known. Two of these countries, Romania and Hungary, manufactured their own tanks as well...


Kharkov 1942: The Wehrmacht strikes back

by Robert Forczyk & Howard Gerrard

After failing to finish off the German Army in the 1941/42 Winter Counteroffensive and aware that Hitler was planning a new summer offensive in mid-1942, Stalin directed the Red Army to conduct a powerful blow...


Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats: Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space

by Susan Stewart & Margarete Klein

Using case studies from the post-Soviet region, a broad range of international contributors present an original and innovative contribution to the debate. They explore the character of post-Soviet regimes and...


Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture

by Galina I. Yermolenko

The essays gathered here examine the legacy of Roxolana, a sixteenth-century Ukrainian woman who, from harem slave, became legal wife and advisor of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The collection views Roxolana...


Transformational Diplomacy in the Cold War

by Keith Hamilton

This book examines the 'Know How Fund', Britain's bilateral technical assistance programme in post-communist central and eastern Europe, devised in response to the end of the Cold War.

The Know How Fund (KHF)...


Memory, Conflict and Social Media

by Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor & Vera Zvereva

This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states - where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past, and especially World War II and Soviet socialism.

To this day,...


History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation: Reconsidering Joint Textbook Projects

by Karina V. Korostelina & Simone Lässig

This book analyses the role of history education in conflict and post-conflict societies, describing common history textbook projects in Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Far East and the Middle East.

Ever...


The Polish Experience through World War II: A Better Day Has Not Come

by Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm & Neal Pease

The Polish Experience through World War II explores Polish history through the lives of people touched by the war. The touching and terrible experiences of these people are laid bare by straightforward, first-hand...


The Ravaged Lands 1900-1914

by Michael Owen Mahoney

This is the story of the people, places, and events of the first fifteen years of the 20th Century in Eastern Europe. This is the first of several volumes that will cover the entire 20th Century. The story is...


Poles Apart: The Tragic Fate of Poles During World War II

by Dr. Jerzy Janusz Maciuszko

Born in Warsaw, the author served on the front lines during the invasion of Poland by Hitler in 1939. He spent over five years as a prisoner-of-war. The book chronicles his and his family's stories as well as...


Litva: The Rise and Fall of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: A Selection from Vanished Kingdoms (Penguin Tracks)

by Norman Davies

The fascinating history of a Baltic empire's dominance and decline-excerpted from internationally bestselling author Norman Davies's Vanished Kingdoms

Vanished Kingdoms introduces readers to once-powerful European...


Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West

by David Rieff

In a shocking and deeply disturbing tour de force, David Rieff, reporting from the Bosnia war zone and from Western capitals and United Nations headquarters, indicts the West and the United Nations for standing...


Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia: Landmarks in the Destiny of a Great Power

by Bill Bowring

Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia: Landmarks in the destiny of a great power brings into sharp focus several key episodes in Russia's vividly ideological engagement with law and rights. Drawing on 30 years...


Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: A Scholars' Initiative

by Charles Ingrao & Thomas A. Emmert

It has been two decades since Yugoslavia fell apart. The brutal conflicts that followed its dissolution are over, but the legacy of the tragedy continues to unsettle the region. Reconciliation is a long and...


The White Rose of Stalingrad: The Real-Life Adventure of Lidiya Vladimirovna Litvyak, the Highest Scoring Female Air Ace of All Time

by Bill Yenne

Of all the major air forces that were engaged in the war, only the Red Air Force had units comprised specifically of women. Initially the Red Air Force maintained an all-male policy among its combat pilots....


Pe-2 Guards Units of World War 2

by Dmitriy Khazanov & Andrey Yurgenson

Petlyakov’s Pe-2 was the most numerous Soviet twin-engined bomber of World War 2, the aircraft being used as a dive-bomber, ground attack platform and dedicated reconnaissance type. The first examples entered...


The Yugoslav Wars (2): Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia 1992-2001

by Nigel Thomas, K. Mikulan & Darko Pavlovic

Osprey's examination of Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia's involvement in the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1995), as well as their involvement in the conflicts of the years that followed. Following the death of the Yugoslavian...


The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe

by Marci Shore

An inventive, wholly original look at the complex psyche of Eastern Europe in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the opening of the communist archives.

 

   In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash’s...


Myth, Identity, and Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Romanian and Serbian Textbooks

by Anamaria Dutceac Segesten

Myth, Identity, and Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Romanian and Serbian Textbooks, by Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, is an examination of how history and politics became entangled in Romania and Serbia. Segesten's...