Eastern Europe

Greater Than a Tourist: Salamanca, Spain by Michelle Torres offers the inside scoop on Salamanca. As part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. In this audiobook, you’ll discover advice that will help you throughout your stay. This audiobook will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge from a local that you may not find in other travel audiobooks.

Greater Than a Tourist: York by Charlotte Mayne offers the inside scoop on York. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there's nothing wrong with that, as a part of the Greater than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who lives at your next travel destination.

Greater Than a Tourist: Cumbria and the Lake District, United Kingdom by Kerry Thornton offers the inside scope on this beautiful region in England. As a part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who lives at your next travel destination. In this audiobook, you'll discover local advice that will help you throughout your stay.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new while traveling? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this audiobook is just for you. Greater Than a Tourist: London, England by Evelina Anissimova offers the inside scoop on London. As a part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who lives at your next travel destination.

When the Croatian War of Independence breaks out in her hometown of Vukovar in the summer of 1991, she is nine years old, nestled within the embrace of family with her father, mother, and older brother. She is sent on a seaside vacation to be far from the hostilities. Meanwhile, her father has disappeared while fighting with the Croatian forces. By the time she returns at summer's end, everything has changed.

Savage Will brings to life a remarkable story of perseverance, heroism, and survival: the true tale of the American medics and nurses who endured two months in Nazi-occupied Albania - and the fearless citizens and Allied intelligence officers who risked all to save them. On a cold morning in war-ravaged Sicily in 1943, men and women of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron boarded a routine flight to the Italian mainland to care for wounded soldiers.

Paul Johnson, the most celebrated popular historian of our time, takes a scalpel to Stalin, whom he considers "one of the outstanding monsters of history." Johnson sets forth the essence of Stalin’s life, character, and career. "It has been a hateful task, which has caused me much pain and disgust," he writes with characteristic candor. "But it has been a duty I have performed not without a certain grim satisfaction."

From the critically acclaimed best-selling author of Bee Season comes a travelogue through the magical and historic city of Prague, a city of vast beauty and wonderfully intimate detail. In Time's Magpie, Myla Goldberg uses her eye for the wonder of tiny objects and everyday things to put us in touch with the essence of this haunting and fantastical place. Goldberg takes us through the city's historic streets, some eerily transformed by the devastating flood of 2002.

Eine klingende Reise durch die Kultur und Geschichte Polens von den Mythen und Sagen bis in die Gegenwart...

The horrid acts of Auschwitz concentration camp really need no introduction. It is nearly impossible to discuss this topic with someone who does not know at least a few points about it. The acts, if applied to any other context, may be restricted to the older populous, but even children grow up knowing about the genocide of World War II.

A Promise at Sobibór is the story of Fiszel Bialowitz, a teenaged Polish Jew who escaped the Nazi gas chambers. Between April 1942 and October 1943, about 250,000 Jews from European countries and the Soviet Union were sent to the Nazi death camp at Sobibór in occupied Poland. Sobibór was not a transit camp or work camp: Its sole purpose was efficient mass murder. On October 14, 1943, approximately half of the 650 or so prisoners still alive at Sobibór undertook a daring and precisely planned revolt, killing SS officers and fleeing through minefields and machine-gun fire.

Prague, la ville dorée, est connue pour ses traditions. C'est probablement ce qui rend cette ville si spéciale, magique, mystérieuse et à la fois emprise d’une aura si positive. Comme vous l'avez sûrement entendu de nombreuses fois, dès que vous aurez vu Prague, vous l’aimerez pour toujours.

Prag, die goldene Stadt, ist für seine guten Traditionen berühmt. Das ist es wahrscheinlich, was die spezielle, magische, mystische und positive Aura...

In 1854, a quarter of a million British soldiers headed east to fight in the Crimean War. Together with their French and Turkish allies, the goal was to free the important port city of Sevastopol from the clutches of Russia, thus keeping them from the seizing control of the Red Sea and thence Mediterranean. This they did, but not without considerable hardship, suffering and loss of life - over 21,000 British men fell to enemy fire, accidents and disease.

Matthias Kneip ist ein Pendler zwischen den Kulturen, ein Grenzfall zwischen Deutschland und Polen...

Praga, la Città Dorata, è famosa per le sue antiche tradizioni. A questo si deve, probabilmente, quell'aura positiva, misteriosa, magica e speciale...

This is a true story of living and learning - being confused and comforted - with the excluded Ashkali people of Kosovo; an account of the challenges and delights of what happens when you find your community but it's a long way from home.

Die 32 Tracks dieses Reiseführers können in Prag zielgerichtet angewählt werden. So können Sie diese wunderschöne Stadt individuell erkunden und sich unterwegs alles Wissenswerte über die historischen Schauplätze und die architektonischen Glanzlichter anhören. Ganz so, wie Sie es gerne möchten!

Mit diesem Hörbuch laden wir zu einem literarischen Streifzug durch das alte Prag. Viele berühmte Schriftsteller, Musiker, Maler und Architekten bereisten die Stadt an der Moldau und hielten ihre Eindrücke und Erlebnisse in Romanen, Gedichten, Tagebüchern, Briefen und Reiseberichten fest. In Verbindung mit einfühlsamen Kompositionen, gespielt von drei erstklassigen Musikern, entsteht ein musikalisch-literarisches Hör-Erlebnis ersten Ranges.

True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American, spied for Stalin during the 1930s and '40s. Then, a pawn in Stalin's sinister master strategy, Field was kidnapped and tortured by the KGB and forced to testify against his own Communist comrades.