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“filip florian”

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  • The Days of the King

    by Filip Florian ...
    Joseph Strauss (a dentist and bachelor, client of the Eleven Titties brothel and of Der Große Bär beer cellar) leaves Prussia in the spring of 1866 and follows a captain of dragoons to Bucharest, where the officer is to ascend the throne as prince of the United Principalities of Romania. War is imminent in central Europe, but the company of a special tomcat, a guardian angel of sorts, helps him to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Lost Years

    Memories of my forgotten homeland

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  • A Short History of Germany - From the Earliest Times to the Peace of Westphalia

    by Ernest Henderson ...
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  • Polish Armies of the Partitions 1770–94

    by Vincent W. Rospond ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    The tragic national epic of Polish history began in these late 18th-century wars.Under Poland's Saxon monarchy, Russia and Prussia constantly meddled in the affairs of the Kingdom. In 1768 a civil war broke out between pro-Russian 'Commonwealth' Poles and 'Confederate' patriots who opposed foreign intervention; Russia intervened directly, and the First Partition followed in 1772. Guerrilla ... Read more

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  • Scattered Stones, Shattered Seeds

    The Story of a Shtetl and a Family Who Lived There

    by Myrna Neuringer Levy ...
    Family mysteries often remain tangled for decades, just waiting for someone to pick up the thread and begin to unravel the web. Filled with questions, the author puzzles over her family history. What was life like for her father growing up in the Galician shtetl of Borchov at the turn of the last century? Why did her Grandpa leave for New York so suddenly? And why did her Grandma never leave, even ... Read more

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  • No Time to Mourn

    by Leon Kahn ...
    Growing up Jewish in the little town, or shtetl, of Eisiskes near the Polish-Lithuanian border, Leon Kahn experienced a peaceful childhood until September 1, 1939 when Hitler’s forces attacked Poland. Only sixteen years of age, Kahn watched as the women and children of his community were herded into a gravel pit and murdered. Realizing that to stay meant certain death, Kahn tore off his yellow ... Read more

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  • Intellectuals and the Communist Idea

    The Search for a New Way in Czech Lands from 1890 to 1938

    by Ladislav Cabada, Zdenek Benedikt ...
    Intellectuals and the Communist Idea describes how the Communist ideology penetrated into Czech culture and politics from the dawn of the twentieth century into the late 1930s, just before the outbreak of WW II in Europe. Based mainly upon the research of contemporary primary sources, the analysis examines the complex issue of personal reasons and individual motivations, appealing slogans, and ... Read more

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  • Myths about Russia

    by Vladimir Medinskiy ...
    Russia's rich history is full of secrets: there's not another country in the world with so many skeletons in its closet. Vladimir Medinskiy's new book offers the reader the opportunity to get better acquainted with some myths about Russia in an quick, easy and entertaining way. The book covers some of the most interesting, colourful and controversial debates in Russian history and the most popular ... Read more

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    by Ryan Gingeras ...
    Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey explores the history of organized crime in Turkey and the roles which gangs and gangsters have played in the making of the Turkish state and Turkish politics. Turkey's underworld, which has been at the heart of several devastating scandals over the last several decades, is strongly tied to the country's long history of opium production and ... Read more

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  • Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures

    From the Bad to the Blasphemous

    Edited by Yana Hashamova, Beth Holmgren, Mark Lipovetsky ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and History
    Investigating the genesis of the prosecuted "crimes" and implied sins of the female performing group Pussy Riot,the most famous Russian feminist collective to date, the essays in Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures: From the Bad to Blasphemous examine what constitutes bad social and political behavior for women in Russia, Poland, and the Balkans, and how and to what ... Read more

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  • If the Walls Could Speak

    Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland

    by Anna Müller ...
    The specter of a prison punishment for even slight political offenses became an element of daily life in post-war Poland. In interwar Poland, imprisonment, especially for communists, had served as a rite of passage, endurance training, and a university teaching life skills. The post-war order brought a dramatic shift, as communists all over the region, often veterans of interwar prisons or war ... Read more

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