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1	The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World more books like this by Kati Marton add to wishlist Author Kati Marton follows these nine over the decades as they flee fascism and anti-Semitism, seek sanctuary in England and America, and set out to make their mark. The scientists Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, and Eugene Wigner enlist Albert Einstein to get Franklin Roosevelt to initiate the development of the atomic bomb. Along with John von ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| 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 $4.95! \| 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 $12.00! new only from $15.95! \| SVS
5	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
6	Gulag: A History more books like this by Anne Applebaum add to wishlist The Gulag entered the world's historical consciousness in 1972, with the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic history of the Soviet camps, "The Gulag Archipelago." Applebaum has undertaken a fully documented history of the Soviet camp system, from its origins in the Russian Revolution to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Two 16 page ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $8.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe more books like this by Mr. William I Hitchcock add to wishlist Most standard histories of World War II in Europe end with the triumphant story of the defeat of Germany and the welcoming embrace of cheering multitudes. The actual story is more complicated, as detailed in this work that offers a fresh look at the liberation of Europe. 40 b&w photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| 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	Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia more books like this by Dr. Orlando Figes add to wishlist A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $3.32! new only from $4.61! \| first editions \| SVS
10	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 $1.99! new only from $6.05! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews more books like this by Peter Duffy, LLB add to wishlist In 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblings being led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Instead of running or giving in to despair, these brothers -- Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski -- fought back, waging a guerrilla war of wits against the ... see all copies from $8.11! new only from $8.52! \| SVS
12 view cover	Nicholas & Alexandra. more books like this by Robert K. Massie add to wishlist Nicholas & Alexandra is the internationally famous biography from Pulitzer prize-winner Robert Massie. Massie shows conclusively how the personal curse of the young heir's haemophilia, and the decisive influence it brought Rasputin, became fatally linked with the collapse of Imperial Russia. As an engrossing account of one of the century's most ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	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 $2.49! new only from $6.42! \| first editions \| SVS
14 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
15 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
16 view cover	Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Krushchev more books like this by Vladislav Zubok, Constantine Pleshakov add to wishlist During the peak years of the Cold War, when the inscrutability of the Kremlin's agenda left many Western observers fearing imminent nuclear war, Americans could only speculate about what Soviet leaders might be thinking and planning. What were the Soviet's true intentions? Did they have a comprehensive strategy in their confrontation with the West ... see all copies from $3.18! new only from $17.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Stalingrad more books like this by Antony Beevor add to wishlist A narrative history of the decisive battle of World War II. In June 1941 Hitler overruled the advice of his general staff and ordered the German army to invade the Soviet Union. After meeting with phenomenal early success--which brought them within 25 miles of Moscow by the summer of 1942--the German forces became bogged down in an extended siege ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million more books like this by Daniel Mendelsohn add to wishlist Mendelsohn grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust--an unmentionable subject during his childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939, he embarked on a hunt for the remaining eyewitnesses of his relatives' fates. This is their ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 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 $10.16! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Alicia: My Story more books like this by Alicia Appleman-Jurman add to wishlist At the age of nine, Alicia saw her family, her community and all she had known, wiped out as the Germans invaded her country. During her long trek across Europe in search of safety, although she was only a child, she came to the aid of fellow Jews and Russian partisans. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 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
22 view cover	We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History more books like this by John Lewis Gaddis add to wishlist The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective, one reflecting Soviet, East European, and Chinese as well as American and West European viewpoints. In a major departure from his earlier scholarship, John Lewis Gaddis, the pre-eminent American authority on the ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $11.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Defiance more books like this by Ms. Nechama Tec add to wishlist The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of one such group, a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than 1,200 Jews by 1944-the largest armed rescue ... see all copies from $4.65! new only from $9.04! \| first editions \| SVS
24 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
25 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 $5.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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