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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Peter Maass went to the Balkans as a reporter at the height of the nightmarish war there. Love Thy Neighbor gives us a vision of a late-20th-century hell that is also a scathing inquiry into the worst extremes of human nature....

In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe....

A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes - the consequences of which still resonate today....

First biography of the great actress in a brilliant interpretation of Danuta Stenka. One-hundred-two years of fascinating life, turbulent career, and dramatic turns in history....

The Trigger is a rich and timely work, part travelogue, part reportage, and part history....

Peter Balakian grew up in a close, extended family, sheltered by 1950s and '60s New Jersey suburbia. But beneath this sunny world lay the dark specter of a trauma....

From Christmas music to gifts and food, as well as a look back through the country's rich and troubled history through the perspective of the festive season, this beautiful and powerful book introduces listeners to Ukraine's unique Christmas traditions....

Western civilization is generally regarded as the child of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. That is, in the West, our philosophical and political thought is derived from that of the ancient Greeks; our Christian religion comes from the Jewish religion, and both of these came to us via the Roman Empire.

The war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 was the bloodiest combat theater in the bloodiest war in history. Oberleutnant Friedrich Wilhelm Sander experienced this bloodshed firsthand when serving with the 11th Panzer-Regiment....