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Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856

by Trevor Royle – St. Martin's Press (December 22, 2014)

Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856 by Trevor Royle

The Crimean War is one of history's most compelling subjects. It encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and maladministration on a grand scale....

Muslims in Medieval Italy: The Colony at Lucera

by Julie Taylor – Lexington Books (August 19, 2003)

Muslims in Medieval Italy is the history of a Muslim colony established at Lucera in southern Italy during the Middle Ages. It examines Muslim-Christian Relations, the legal and social status of Muslims in Christiandom,...

Historical Dictionary of the Crimean War

by Guy Arnold – Scarecrow Press (April 16, 2002)

This Dictionary is an excellent window into the political, national, and military intrigue that surrounded one of the most costly campaigns of all time. Includes a chronology, maps, and a comprehensive bibliography...

Death in the Baltic

by Cathryn J. Prince – St. Martin's Press (April 08, 2013)

The worst maritime disaster ever occurred during World War II, when more than 9,000 German civilians drowned. It went unreported.

January 1945: The outcome of World War II has been determined. The Third Reich...

From Double Eagle To Red Flag

by General P. N. Krassnoff, Erik Law-Gisiko & William Gerhardi – Barakaldo Books (November 19, 2020)

Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov (1869-1947) was Lieutenant General of the Russian army when the revolution broke out in 1917 and one of the leaders of the counterrevolutionary White movement afterward. According...

The Baltic

by Alan Palmer – Abrams Press (December 17, 2007)

Alan Palmer traces the history of the Baltic region from its early Viking days and its time under the Byzantine Empire through its medieval prime when the Baltic Sea served as one of Europe?s central trading...

Soviet Religious Policy in Estonia and Latvia

by Robert F. Goeckel – Indiana University Press (August 03, 2018)

Soviet Religious Policy in Estonia and Latvia considers what impact Western religious culture had on Soviet religious policy. While Russia was a predominantly Orthodox country, Baltic states annexed after WWII,...

Bridging the Baltic Sea

by Lars Fredrik Stöcker – Lexington Books (December 20, 2017)

Tracing the origins, evolution, and goals of Polish and Estonian émigré politics in Cold War Sweden and its linkages with both the host and homeland societies, this book investigates the transnational dimension...

School of Europeanness

by Dace Dzenovska – Cornell University Press (April 15, 2018)

In School of Europeanness, Dace Dzenovska argues that Europe’s political landscape is shaped by a fundamental tension between the need to exclude and the requirement to profess and institutionalize the value...

Alpine Warriors

by Bernadette McDonald – Rmb | Rocky Mountain Books (September 20, 2015)

Winner, Mountaineering History, 2015 Banff Mountain Book Competition

From internationally renowned mountain historian Bernadette McDonald comes a highly readable, intense and exciting look at the explosion of...

Kith, Kin, and Neighbors

by David A. Frick – Cornell University Press

In the mid-seventeenth century, Wilno (Vilnius), the second capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was home to Poles, Lithuanians, Germans, Ruthenians, Jews, and Tatars, who worshiped in Catholic, Uniate,...

Seed in Snow

by Knuts Skujenieks & Bitite Vinklers – BOA Editions Ltd. (November 21, 2016)

This first U.S. publication of Knuts Skujenieks—one of Latvia’s foremost poets—is the author’s most important and widely-translated body of work. Convicted in 1962 of anti-Soviet sentiment, Skujenieks...

Bosnia's Million Bones

by Christian Jennings – St. Martin's Press (November 25, 2013)

The extraordinary story of how a team of international forensic scientists pioneered ground-breaking DNA technology to identify the bodies of thousands of victims of the Yugoslav Wars, and how their work is...

The Whistleblower

by Kathryn Bolkovac & Cari Lynn – St. Martin's Press (January 03, 2011)

When Nebraska police officer and divorced mother of three Kathryn Bolkovac saw a recruiting announcement for private military contractor DynCorp International, she applied and was hired. Good money, world travel,...

Balkan Genocides: Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century

by Paul Mojzes – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (October 16, 2011)

Balkan Genocides is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of the three major waves of genocide and ethnic cleansing (including the Holocaust) in the Balkan peninsula during the twentieth century—from...

A Journey to Nowhere

by Jean-Paul Kauffmann – MacLehose Press (October 01, 2013)

Courland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga to the north, the Baltic to the west and Lithuania at its southern border, and now part of modern Latvia, the region was by occupied by Nazi...