Eastern Europe

In 1949, a newly minted branch of the CIA (the precursor of today’s National Clandestine Service), flush with money and burning with determination to roll back the Iron Curtain, embarked on the first paramilitary operation in the history of the agency. They hatched an elaborate plan, coordinated with the British Secret Intelligence Service, to foment popular rebellion and detach Albania, the weakest of the Soviet satellites in Europe, from Moscow’s orbit. The operation resulted in dismal failure and was shut down by 1954.

In this true-life thriller, Kati Marton draws on her skill as an investigative reporter to discover who her journalist parents really were---and how they survived the Nazis in Budapest and imprisonment by the Soviets during the Cold War.

The Essential Kiev Guide (2017 Edition) has been revised and updated to introduce Kiev's key sights, experiences and travel essentials to make your stay in the Ukrainian capital and enjoying and exciting one. Our experience as one of the top Kiev private guides leading tours for hundreds of western visitors every year has helped us craft a book which we hope we offer practical advice and useful tips when navigating our city and its many attractions.

Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover Seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish communities are revitalizing the ancient centers of Budapest, Prague, and Amsterdam. These brave, determined Jewish men and women have chosen to settle - or remain - in Europe after the devastation of the Holocaust, but they have paid a price.

Sometimes a city can be like a bird. Just as the magpie is an inveterate collector, hoarding beautiful eclectic bits to line its nest, so Prague retains fragments from bygone regimes and centuries past to create a city of juxtaposition that is alternately exquisite and bizarre.

An old lady, an antiques dealer, dies in Basel, Switzerland. Her devoted daughter-in-law finally steels herself to do what all families must in the aftermath of a death - she heads upstairs to the attic to sort through the old lady's effects. But this wasn't just any old lady, and this wasn't just any old family house. Helene (Leni) Elias was born Helene Frank, only daughter of Alice Frank and sister of Otto Frank, who in turn was Anne Frank's father.1929 destroyed the Franks' banking business in Frankfurt; the rise of the Nazi party began to destroy their lives.

Holocaust survivor Harry Gordon recalls in brutal detail the anguished years of his youth, a youth spent struggling to survive in a Lithuanian concentration camp. A memoir about hope and resilience, The Shadow of Death describes the invasion of Kovno by the Red Army and the impact of Soviet occupation from the perspective of the ghetto's weakest and poorest class. It also serves as a reminder that the Germans were not alone responsible for the persecution and extermination of Jews.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Bath. Greater Than a Tourist – Bath Somerset United Kingdom by author Sami Cheung offers firsthand and personal insight into the best ways to visit the beautiful, historic city of Bath. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist.

A land of mountains, hills, and fertile plains, Romania is a tourist destination waiting to be discovered. It is a rich and complex country: a place whose cities are home to beautiful parks and vibrant cultural scenes and whose people welcome guests warmly into their homes, sharing the best of whatever they have and partying into the night, suffused by Latin joie de vivre. Buffeted over time between three great powers - the West, Russia, and Turkey - Romania betrays the cultural influences of each, and it can be a difficult place to get a handle on.

Ein Reisebuch für alle, die im Baltikum waren oder dorthin wollen. Ein Abenteuerbuch für alle, die selbst ihre sieben Sachen packen und etwas unternehmen wollen. Ein Laufbuch für alle, die selbst Erfahrungen auf langen Läufen machen. Mit Kapiteln zur Gesundheit und Ernährung unterwegs. "Das Abenteuer Baltikum ist mein ganz persönlicher Lebenslauf. Er hat mich für immer verändert. In 107 Tagen reiste ich in Laufschuhen entlang der Ostseeküste von Stralsund nach Tallinn. Ohne Begleitung konnte ich mich ganz der Natur, den Menschen und ihren Kulturen widmen.

La ciudad de Trogir es una pequeña joya escondida en la costa Dálmata que no muchos conocen fuera de Croacia, sobre todo si tenemos en cuenta otras ciudades mucho más turísticas como Dubrovnik o Split, de la que la separan tan solo 26 kilómetros.

El centro de Praga es el corazón que bombea vida al resto de la urbe. En sus alrededores se puede pasear esquivando los lugares típicos para realizar buenas compras en tiendas singulares y disfrutar del encanto de sus calles.

Hungary is one of the oldest cultural areas in Europe, with valuable evidence of the past. A diverse country full of nature and culture. Discover the many facets of Hungary. Sopron, Balaton, Fertö-Hansag, Fertöd-Eszterhaza, Köszeg, Györ, Pecs, Budapest, Visegrad, Nagycenki, Kalocsa, Gödöllöl, Eger. Start from Sopron with magnificent houses from several centuries. into the nature of the Fertö-Hansag National Park, which is home to water buffalos and various water birds. The Rococo palace "Fertöd-Eszterhaza" was the magnificent ancestral home of the family.

La autora ganadora del premio "Valerij Zayets" y nominada para el premio Pulitzer, Svetlana Kostenko dibuja una vívida imagen de las secuelas del accidente nuclear más famoso del mundo.

La autora ganadora del premio "Valerij Zayets" y nominada para el premio Pulitzer, Svetlana Kostenko dibuja una vívida imagen de las secuelas del accidente nuclear más famoso del mundo.

La autora ganadora del premio "Valerij Zayets" y nominada para el premio Pulitzer, Svetlana Kostenko dibuja una vívida imagen de las secuelas del accidente nuclear más famoso del mundo.

All'alba del 26 aprile 1986, all'01:23:40, Aleksandr Akimov preme l'interruttore per l'arresto di emergenza del quarto reattore nucleare di Chernobyl. Quel gesto costringe alla permanente evacuazione di una città e sancisce l'inizio di un disastro nucleare che ha segnato la storia del mondo e il destino dell'Unione Sovietica. Seguiranno decenni di storie contraddittorie, esagerate e inesatte.

Nominado al "Premio Nacional Kyorlenko Heorhij Stepanovych 2019" y ganador del "Mejor informe periodístico sobre el desastre de Chernobyl" nombrado por Kyiv Today, esta serie de libros revela los eventos del peor accidente nuclear, también representado en la mundialmente famosa serie de TV de drama Chernobyl 2019, con detalles más profundos.

Var den medeltida krigsherren en blodtörstig psykopat eller Europas räddning? Rumäniens medeltida krigsherre är känd under många ökända namn. För vissa är han mer känd som Vlad Pålspetsaren men framförallt som Dracula. Det är ett öknamn som avslöjar hans blodtörst och bästa avrättningsmetod: att spetsa sina offer på pålar och lämna deras ruttnande kvarlevor att kanta skogen.

Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler was voivode of Wallachia three times. The tales about the burning of the lazy, the poor, and the lame at Vlad's order and the execution of the woman who had made her husband too short a shirt can also be found among the German and Slavic anecdotes. Books describing Vlad's cruel acts were among the first best sellers in the German-speaking territories.