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Everything is Illuminated
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Jonathan Safran Foer
A writer journeys to the farmlands of eastern Europe to find Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Passionate and marked by an indelible humanity, "Everything Is Illuminated" mines the black holes of history and is ultimately a story about searching: for people and places that no longer exist and for the tales that link ...
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The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale
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Jan Brett (Illustrator)
When Nicki drops his new white mitten in the snow, some curious woodland animals find it and crawl in for warmth. First comes a mole, then a rabbit, a badger and others, each one larger than the last.
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Goodbye is Not Forever
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Amy George, Al Janssen
Amy's father was arrested and sentenced to a labor camp in Siberia. Then World War II dawned, and the Nazis invaded her Russian village. Amy and her mother were taken to a concentration camp and, upon war's end, made a daring escape. But all the while Amy thought of her father. Was he still alive? Would she ever see him again? A vivid reminder of ...
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Wolves Eat Dogs
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Martin Cruz Smith
With Arkady Renko, Smith created one of the iconic sleuths of contemporary fiction. Renko returns to investigate international plots that drive one of Russia's billionaire businessmen to jump to his death.
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The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
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Robert Conquest
The first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century, The Harvest of Sorrow examines the atrocities inflicted on the Russian peasantry by the Soviet Communist party between 1929 and 1933.
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The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
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C Woodham Smith, Cecil Woodham-Smith
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Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust
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Miron Dolot
An eyewitness account of the forced collectivization of Russian agriculture in 1929-1931 and the ensuing famine in the Ukraine, brought about by Stalin's command.
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With fire and sword
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
This powerful novel, "a Polish Gone with the Wind" (New York Times Book Review), is set in the 17th century and follows the struggle of the kingdom of Poland to maintain its unity in the face of the Cossack-led peasant rebellion. Foreword by James Michener.
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The Crimean War: A Reappraisal
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Philip Warner
It would seem from the general historical perspective that the Crimean War was the most mismanaged, brutal and futile campaign that has ever been fought. For well over a hundred years it has been presented as the classic model of military and medical blundering. Military inefficiency is felt to have been slightly redeemed by the glamour ...
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Trial of God
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Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator)
Three actors show up at an inn to perform a Purim play for the Jewish community and discover only three Jews have survived a recent pogrom. Instead, they stage a mock trial of God for allowing such things to happen.
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Alicia
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Hurman Alicia Appleman, Alicia Appleman-Jurman
Between the ages of 13 and 16, Alicia Jurman lost her mother, father, and three brothers to Nazi madmen. Miraculously she did not lose her faith or spirit, and ultimately led many Jews to safety through an underground route to Palestine.
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The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews
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Patrick Desbois, Paul A Shapiro (Foreword by)
In this critically acclaimed, heart-wrenching memoir, Father Patrick Desbois tells the poignant story of how he found mass gravesites of Jews exterminated by Nazi mobile units in the Ukraine during WWII - and set upon the moving journey to honor the victims with proper burials and bring their stories to life. He became interested in the Nazi ...
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Wheels of terror
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Sven Hassel
Sven Hassel rejoins his comrades in the 27th penal battalion - now equipped with armoured vehicles - for the next battles on the Russian Front. Caught between the insane orders of the Nazi high command and the overwhelming numbers of Russian soldiers, Sven and his mates fight on regardless. They hate Hitler and Stalin in equal measure and will do ...
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Lonely Planet Ukraine
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Sarah Johnstone
Providing information on a popular destination, this serves as a guide to the Ukraine. It highlights Ukraine's Black Sea beach resorts, and World Heritage site of Lviv. It brings the story of Chernobyl and includes details of tours.
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The White Guard
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Mikhail Bulgakov
"The White Guard" records, in polyphonic exuberance, the turbulent months of 1918 as experienced by the Turbins, a wealthy family in Kiev buffeted by the Russian Civil War. The Turbins are supporter of the White Army, and their hopes rise and fall with its successes and failures versus the Reds.
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Ablaze: The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl
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Piers Paul Read
The bestselling author of Blaze presents a heart-pounding account of the world's greatest nuclear disaster, based on sources not available before the fall of the Soviet Union. Read's enthralling account is filled with acts of courage--and also bumbling confusion, secrecy, lies, and coverups. Read spent many months in Russia interviewing hundreds ...
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The Rusyns
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Alexander Bonkalo, Sandor Bonkalo
This is the best general introduction to the history and culture of the Carpatho-Rusyns or Ruthenians, a minority living today within the U.S.S.R and Czechoslovakia. A native Ruthenian and renowed scholar in the field, Bonkalo provides information on the group's origins, historiography, ethnography, culture, literature, folklore, religion and ...
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Victors and Lords: Alexander Sheridan Adventures, Vol. 1
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V A Stuart
1854, Crimea...Captain Alex Sheridan commands a unit of the East India Company in the heat of the deadly battles of the Crimean War. Despised by the aristocratic generals of the regular army, Sheridan and his corps of volunteers must face both the rigors of combat and the treachery of men who should be allies in this thrilling first instalment of ...
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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Svetlana Alexievich, Keith Gessen (Translator)
"" Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award"" On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. "Voices from Chernobyl" is the first book to present personal accounts of the tragedy. Journalist Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of people ...
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Behind the Secret Window
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Nelly S Toll, PH.D., Nellie Toll
The Polish-Jewish author shares the true story of her experiences in Poland during World War II. Separated from her father and brother, the then 8-year-old Toll and her mother were taken in and hidden from the Nazis by a Gentile family. Illustrated with watercolor paintings done by the author during the time she was in hiding.
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At Her Service
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Susan Johnson
Hugh D'Abernon, Marquis of Darley, was in Sevastopol for one reason only: to reconnoitre the town for the British Secret Service. So if he encounters a woman of unparalleled beauty in need of his help, he will do his duty and smartly escort her back to town - then continue on his way. He will not consider being diverted from the task at hand. No ...
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Ukraine: The Bradt Travel Guide
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Dr. Andrew Evans
This fully updated guide will keep you up to speed with this rapidly evolving country. It features comprehensive practical information, while revealing the country's personality through in-depth exploration of its history, culture and natural beauty. Traditional churches, monasteries and sacred sites provide a contrast to the notorious, but ...
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Dynamo: Triumph and Tragedy in Nazi-Occupied Kiev
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Andy Dougan
The amazing true story of a soccer team, re-formed from the players of the great Dynamo and Lokomotiev Kiev squads in the chaos of World War II, that played out one fateful summer season of matches. (SEE QUOTES.)
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The legacy of Chernobyl
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Zhores A Medvedev
On the morning of April 26, 1986, a Soviet nuclear plant at Chernobyl (near Kiev) exploded, pouring radioactivity into the environment and setting off the worst disaster in the history of nuclear energy. Now a former Soviet scientist gives a comprehensive account of the catastrophe. Photographs.
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Odessa Memories
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Nicolas Iljine (Editor), Bel Kaufman (Contributions by), Oleg Gubar (Contributions by)
Odessa, the city founded by Catherine the Great in 1794 on the Black Sea, became a thriving international crossroads less than a century after its creation. This virtual 'melting pot of Russia' - the gateway to Russia from Constantinople, Athens, Venice, Marseilles, and Genoa, and the third largest metropolis in the country - quickly rose to ...
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