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  • The New Cold War

    Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union

    by Mark MacKinnon ...
    An intrepid investigation into the pro-democracy movements that have reshaped the Eastern bloc since 2000, reopening the Kremlin’s wounds from the Cold War.When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union collapsed two years later, liberal democracy was supposed to fill the void left by Soviet communism. Poland and Czechoslovakia made the best of reforms, but the citizens of the “Evil Empire ... Read more

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    L T Meade - A Short Story Collection

    Prolific 19th century female Irish author and activist

    by L T Meade ...
    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley, Fiona MacKinnon, Janet Fullerlove ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 17 min

    The name L T Meade, a pseudonym for Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith, rarely brings a sign of recognition.Although she wrote mainly for young girls she also wrote across many genres including sensational, religious, historical, adventure and romances. In all, her credits add up to over 300 titles.Born in Brandon, County Cork in Ireland in 1844 she began her prolific career as a writer when she was ... Read more

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    Female Short Story, The - A Chronological History - Volume 3

    Charlotte Riddell to Mary E Penn

    by Louisa May Alcott, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Vera Zhelikhovsky ...
    Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Mark Rice-Oxley, Fiona MacKinnon ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 51 min

    A wise man once said ‘The safest place for a child is in the arms of his mother’s voice’. This is a perfect place to start our anthology of female short stories.Some of our earliest memories are of our mothers telling us bedtime stories. This is not to demote the value of fathers but more to promote the often-overshadowed talents of the gentler sex.Perhaps ‘gentler’ is a word that we should re ... Read more

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  • The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger

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    by Carolyn Gammon, Israel Unger ...
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  • Tanks of Hitler’s Eastern Allies 1941–45

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  • Don't Mourn, Balkanize!

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    by Andrej Grubačić ...
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  • Imagining the Balkans

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  • The Hidden Pope

    The Untold Story of a Lifelong Friendship That Changed the Relationship Between Catholics and Jews

    by Darcy O'Brien ...
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  • Communism, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland, 1944-1950

    by Michael Fleming ...
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    This book fills a significant gap in the study of the establishment of communist rule in Poland in the key period of 1944–1950. It shows that nationalism and nationality policy were fundamentally important in the consolidation of communist rule, acting as a crucial nexus through which different groups were both coerced and were able to consent to the new unfolding social and political order ... Read more

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  • Homecoming

    by Joseph Wechsberg ...
    Homecoming by Joseph Wechsberg (24,000 words, 24 illustrations)Published by Knopf in 1946 as an expanded version of a two-part New Yorker article.Joseph Wechsberg and his wife left Czechoslovakia for America in 1938. Sent with the US Army to liberate Europe from the Nazis, Wechsberg returns to Ostrava, the town where he grew up. Searching for his wife's parents, he discovers the devastation of ... Read more

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