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1	The Historian more books like this by Elizabeth Kostova add to wishlist The specter of the supernatural infuses this academic thriller, the debut of author Elizabeth Kostova. In 1972 Amsterdam, a sheltered, motherless teenager stumbles across an ancient book imprinted with a dragon and stuffed with 40-year-old, mysteriously addressed letters. Gradually, her father reveals the link between the book and various attempts ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Peter the Great more books like this by Robert K Massie add to wishlist "Enthralling . . . As fascinating as any novel and more so than most." The New York Times Book Review The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bestseller by the author of DREADNOUGHT. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, one of the most extraordinary rulers in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.43! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey more books like this by Isabel Fonseca add to wishlist Isabel Fonseca delves into the largely hidden world of the Roma--or Gypsies--in this book. They are a people who have been persecuted for centuries in Europe, and the society they have developed is one which puts little stock in remembering history or respecting European states. Fonseca spent four years with Roma across Europe and listened to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.93! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall more books like this by Michael Meyer add to wishlist Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many still believe it was the words of President Ronald Reagan, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! that brought the Cold War to an end. Meyer disagrees, and in this compelling account, explains why. see all copies from $13.00! new only from $15.95! \| SVS
5	Embers more books like this by Sandor Marai add to wishlist This 1942 novel, by a Hungarian expatriate writer, takes place in the late 1930s. An aging general named Henrik awaits the arrival at his remote castle of his boyhood friend Konrad, who stole the affections of Henrik's wife years before. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire more books like this by Jason Goodwin add to wishlist This history of the Ottoman Empire charts its rise in Asia Minor in the 13th century, its golden age under Suleyman I, its gradual decline, and its final collapse in 1918. The empire included parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. This book was a New York Times Notable Book for 1999. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.20! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Rick Steves' Prague & the Czech Republic more books like this by Rick Steves, Jan Honza Vihan add to wishlist Who but Rick Steves can tell travellers the best way to see the spires of Prague, castles of Bohemia, and villages of Moravia? With Rick Steves' "Prague and the Czech Republic", travelers can experience the best of everything this city has to offer - economically and hassle-free.Completely revised and updated, this guide includes: opinionated ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
8	A Shameful ACT: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility more books like this by Taner Akcam add to wishlist A landmark assessment of Turkish culpability in the Armenian genocide, the first history of its kind by a Turkish historian In 1915, under the cover of a world war, some one million Armenians were killed through starvation, forced marches, forced exile, and mass acts of slaughter. Although Armenians and world opinion have held the Ottoman powers ... see all copies from $3.78! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed more books like this by Slavenka Drakulic add to wishlist 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. "Drakulic is a journalist and novelist whose voice belongs to the world".--Gloria Steinem. see all copies from $2.18! new only from $6.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague more books like this by Timothy Garton Ash add to wishlist 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 position of trying to limit the scope of its victory--or sitting in at the meetings of an ... see all copies from $2.33! new only from $7.93! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Rick Steves' Germany & Austria more books like this by Rick Steves add to wishlist Who but Rick Steves can tell travellers how to take the Do-It-Yourself Dresden Baroque Blitz Tour or the Short and Scenic Black Forest Joyride? With Rick Steves' "Germany & Austria 2008", travellers can experience Rick's favourite destinations in Munich, Bavaria, Baden-Baden, Rothenburg, Wursburg, Frankfurt, the Rhine Valley, Dresden, Berlin, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
12 view cover	The Balkans: A Short History more books like this by Mark Mazower add to wishlist Focusing on the emergence of nation-states in the 19th and 20th centuries, out of the collapsing Ottoman and Hapsburg empires, "The Balkans" takes the story of Europe's most volatile and strategically important region through the world wars, cold war, the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the continuing search for stability in southeastern Europe. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.02! \| first editions
13 view cover	A History of Russia more books like this by Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky add to wishlist This work presents the whole span of Russia's history, from the origins of the Kievan state and the building of an empire, to Soviet Russia, the successor states, and beyond. Drawing on both primary sources and major interpretive works, this edition updates its extensive coverage of the social, economic, cultural, political and military events of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.00! \| first editions
14 view cover	To End a War more books like this by Richard Holbrooke add to wishlist The untold inside story of the negotiations that brought the Bosnian war to an end. Richard Holbrooke, former assistant secretary of state and architect of the Dayton accords, provides a comprehensive history of one of the most intricate diplomatic negotiations of our time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Forgotten Soldier more books like this by Guy Sajer add to wishlist The chronicle of a young German soldier trapped in the vast, faceless anonymity of total war. see all copies from $3.12! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague more books like this by Slavenka Drakulic add to wishlist Drakulic introduces readers to the accused individuals from the Bosnian conflict of the early 1990s--from the infamous to the unknown to the unquestionably guilty--seeking to understand the people behind the horrific crimes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	God's Smuggler more books like this by Brother Andrew add to wishlist "Brother Andrew is living evidence that even in a world composed more and more of sophisticated softies there is still room fo revangelical derring do"..........The Austin Statesman see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.88! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Night soldiers more books like this by Alan Furst add to wishlist This highly original novel charting the rise of the intelligence services in pre-war Eastern Europe first established Alan Furst's remarkable reputation. Now it is to be reissued in B-format, in a new cover style, alongside his new paperback, The World at Night. In Bulgaria in 1934 nineteen-year-old Khristo Stoianev sees his brother kicked to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Don't Ask more books like this by Donald E Westlake add to wishlist In his latest caper, Dortmunder is hired to steal the femur of a 16-year-old girl who was canonized because, 800 years ago, she was killed and eaten by her family. Now two European countries and the Catholic church are fighting like dogs over the bone. How will this free-for-all end? Don't Ask. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Tortured for Christ more books like this by Richard Wurmbrand add to wishlist The Rev Richard Wurmbrand is an evangelical minister who endured 14 years of Communist imprisonment and torture in his homeland, Romania. In 1945, when the Communists seized the country and attempted to control the churches for their purposes, Wurmbrand began an "underground" ministry to his enslaved people and the invading Soviet soldiers. He was ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust more books like this by Jacob Boas add to wishlist Diary entries from five teenagers who eventually met the same fate as victims of the Holocaust. David Rubinowicz, the son of a Polish diaryman, Yitzhak Rudashevski, a communist living in Lithuania, Moshe Flinker an Orthodox Jew living in Belgium, Eva Heyman, a wealthy girl living in Hungary, and Anne Frank living, in hiding with her family in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Story of a Secret State more books like this by Jan Karski add to wishlist In Nazi-occupied Poland, schools, courts and newspapers were operated by the Polish Underground secretly, right under the nose of the Gestapo. The author who was liaison officer between the underground and the exiled Polish government in London, wrote this amazing report right after the liberation. see all copies from $2.21! new only from $29.97! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Painted bird more books like this by Jerzy N Kosinski add to wishlist A portrait of the Nazi mentality, by the author of "Being There". A young boy, perhaps a Gypsy, perhaps a Jew, is abandoned by his parents during World War II. He is left to wander alone from one Slav village to another, sometimes being hounded and tortured and sometimes sheltered and taught. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Prague more books like this by Vladimir Soukup (Contributions by) add to wishlist Highly pictorial, these Eyewitness Travel Guides are now offered in a tenth anniversary edition, with all the information savvy travelers need to know. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.58! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Becoming Visible: Women in European History more books like this by Renate Bridenthal add to wishlist Thematic emphases in this text include the contacts between European women and those outside European frontiers, sexuality and its importance for the construction of gender over the centuries, and the role of women in the great events and movements in European history and the impact of such events on them. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.75! \| first editions \| SVS

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