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Simonui Daukantui gyvam esant, 1845 m., iš keturių jo istoriografinių veikalų buvo išleistas tik „Būdas senovės lietuvių, kalnėnų ir žemaičių“, pasirašytas Jokūbo Laukio slapyvardžiu ir spausdintas ……続きを見る

Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis. Th……続きを見る

Subyrėjus Sovietų Sąjungai, socializmo griūtį geriausiai įkūnijo Lenino portretų ir statulų pašalinimas iš viešų vietų. Vis dėlto Spalio revoliucijos vadas iki šių dienų išlieka viena iškiliausių ir……続きを見る

"The Scourge of God" tells the tale of the terrible Tartar invasion of Hungary during the reign of Bela IV. (1235-1270), when the Mongol hordes devastated Magyarland from end to end. Ba……続きを見る

The Vienna I Knew: Memories of a European Childhood by Joseph Wechsberg (80,000 words, 18 illustrations) Wechsberg’s memoir of pre-World War II mittel-Europa recounts with charm and irony life in th……続きを見る

Christened with Crosses is the unforgettable story of a young boy’s dangerous, adventure-filled westbound journey along the railways of postwar Russia. Based on a true story of Kochergin’s amazing l……続きを見る

Apariţia revistei „VITRALII...” - publicaţie a veteranilor din serviciile de informaţii secrete române - este expresia unui interes naţional, evident şi imperativ, conjugat cu o necesitate so……続きを見る

They live in secret and their lives are fascinating. Howard Brinkley takes you inside the history of spying in this bundled anthology of three of his top-selling histories. The following books ar……続きを見る

Sensation Fair: Tales of Prague by Egon Erwin Kisch (translated from the German by Guy Endore, 121,000 words) Sensation Fair: Tales of Prague (Marktplatz der Sensationen) is the memoir of the writer……続きを見る

Prin responsabilităţile pe care le-am avut în conducerea contraspionajului român am fost nu doar un simplu contemplator al evoluţiilor de suprafaţă, ci unul dintre puţinii care au cunos……続きを見る

Russian rural history has long been based on a 'Peasant Myth', originating with nineteenth-century Romantics and still accepted by many historians today. In this book, Tracy Dennison shows how Russi……続きを見る

When Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, the fate of Paul Vantoch’s Jewish father hung in the balance. To save the family business, Eugen Vantoch divorced his wife and went into hiding only to s……続きを見る

FEATURES: • Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations • A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book • Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book • Manuall……続きを見る

The captivating, tender memoir of Charles Novacek, a Czechoslovakian whose idyllic childhood exploring the Tatra Mountains was shattered by the Nazi occupation of his homeland. He spent his youth de……続きを見る

Conscience on Trial reveals the startling story, kept secret for sixty years, of ordinary citizens caught up in the elaborate machinery of political terror in Stalinist Ukraine. In 1952, fourteen po……続きを見る

This book fills a significant gap in the study of the establishment of communist rule in Poland in the key period of 1944–1950. It shows that nationalism and nationality policy were fundamentally im……続きを見る

A masterful work of personal reportage, this volume is also a vibrant portrait of a mysterious people and an essential document of a disappearing culture. Fabled, feared, romanticized, and reviled, ……続きを見る

The Balkan Games resulted on the one hand from the growth of modern European sport and the unsatisfactory performances of the Balkan athletes at national and international level, and on the other ha……続きを見る

In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts wa……続きを見る

A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris ……続きを見る

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, ……続きを見る

The Whistleblower presents the shocking story of the human rights abuses perpetrated by American mercenary soldiers abroad, as told by the woman who brought them down--now a major motion picture. Wh……続きを見る

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 E……続きを見る

Accessible to students, tourists and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the un……続きを見る

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, ……続きを見る

This book seeks to reassess the role of Europe in the end of the Cold War and the process of German unification. Much of the existing literature on the end of the Cold War has focused primarily on t……続きを見る

The Mabinogion Lady Charlotte Guest, tr. A group of Welsh tales from the Red Book of Hergest, a 14th Century manuscript maintained at Jesus College, Oxford. A Welsh cycle of Arthurian tales. If you ……続きを見る

**Winner of a National Jewish Book Award "Fascinating.…A humane and tragic survey of a great and tragic subject." ーJan Morris, Literary Review** From Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist re……続きを見る

A clear and concise introduction to contemporary Slovenia. It examines the country's rapid transition from a collection of provinces in the southern part of the Habsburg Empire, to a republic within……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS The Ancient Period, from the Earliest Times to the Introduction of Christianity in 988 The Ancient Period, (continued) fro……続きを見る