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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
In "Erased", Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother's hometown of Buchach - in former Eastern Galicia - carries him on a ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Originally published in 1994, this best-selling guide to scenic and culturally rich Ukraine has been completely revised and updated for this fourth edition. Detailed information regarding visas and customs, airlines, tours, hotels, shopping, sites of interest, insight into Ukrainian history, culture and local traditions, plus new colour ...
NEBA's Nan Sorenson called the Algonquin office recently sharing the good news that Irene Zabytko's first novel, The Sky Unwashed, was selected as their Discovery Title. The last time NEBA chose an Algonquin title was way back in the mid-'90s, when they selected Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies, so let's just say we're pretty damn ...
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 ...
Set in post-Soviet Kiev, this novel is about Viktor, who takes over the care of a penguin named Misha who has been ejected from the city zoo in a frenzy of budget-cutting. When Viktor gets a job writing obituaries for the local paper, he is horrified to learn that the people he writes about are being murdered. Meanwhile, things become complicated ...
"" 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 ...
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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