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Eastern Europe   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Lonely Planet Eastern Europe  •   Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 952 PAGES
A comprehensive guide to Eastern Europe, including Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Yugoslavia. It is a compact overview of the region, especially appropriate for the independent-minded traveler visiting several countries. With 150 local and regional sketch maps, and a 10-15-page overview of each country. (EUR72, $28.99)
  Lonely Planet Eastern Europe
The Magic Lantern, The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague  •  Timothy Garton Ash
HISTORY •  1993 •  PAPER  • 167 PAGES
A vividly reported eyewitness account of the fall of the Berlin Wall and other dramatic events of 1989 by an astute journalist and historian of Central Europe. With a chapter each on Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague, it's a good introduction to these vibrant cities during a time of great change. (GER36, $13.95)
  The Magic Lantern, The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
Bury Me Standing  •  Isabel Fonseca
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1996 •  PAPER  • 322 PAGES
The Roma, as the Gypsies call themselves, have a long tradition in Eastern European culture -- influencing the music, foods, religious and folk traditions. This is an excellent book on the evasive subject of Roma culture in Eastern Europe, painstakingly researched by Ms. Fonseca as she traveled and lived among Gypsies. Black-and-white photos help give a human face to the conditions of the Roma, their history among the settled peoples of Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany and the prospects for their cultural survival in the "new" Eastern Europe. (EUR09, $14.95)
  Bury Me Standing
Central Europe Map  •   Freytag & Berndt
2004 •  MAP
A colorful physical relief map of Central Europe at a scale of 1:2,000,000. (EUR12, $11.95)
  Central Europe Map
 

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Balkans Southeast Europe Map  •   Freytag & Berndt   • OUT OF PRINT  •  A nicely detailed regional map, showing the route of the Danube from Budapest to the Black Sea, at a scale of 1:2,000,000. (EUR147, $12.95)
 
 
Bradt Guide Belarus  •  Nigel Roberts   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A detailed, personable guide to the Republic of Belarus, revealing its history, nature, culture and architecture. (EUR277, $25.99)
 
 
Lonely Planet Central Europe  •   Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  With dozens of maps, color photographs and sections on history and culture, this practical guide introduces Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland and their neighbors. (EUR94, $28.99)
 
 
Balkan Ghosts, A Journey Through History  •  Robert D. Kaplan   • HISTORY  •  Kaplan interweaves the history, art and culture of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece with his travels in this portrait of the region. (BLK02, $16.00)
 
 
Central Europe, Enemies, Neighbors, Friends  •  Lonnie Johnson   • HISTORY  •  An academic survey of the social, political, and economic past of Central Europe, and the conflicts that stir modern-day European politics. (EUR69, $39.95)
 
 
Hitler and the Holocaust  •  Robert S. Wistrich   • HISTORY  •  A short history of the cultural and political circumstances surrounding the genocide of the Jews. Wistrich looks closely at Anti-Semitism in Germany, Europe and abroad in an attempt to understand the evil unleashed during World War II. (EUR114, $13.95)
 
 
Inventing Eastern Europe, The Map of Civilization on the Mind of Enlightenment  •  Larry Wolff   • HISTORY  •  The author, a professor of history, looks back to Catherine the Great, Rousseau, Voltaire and Western (mis)perceptions of Eastern Europe during the late 18th century. (EUR34, $29.95)
 
 
Kingdom of Auschwitz  •  Otto Friedrich   • HISTORY  •  Otto Friedrich's slim book is an intensely personal account of the infamous Auschwitz death camp. He covers the entire history of Auschwitz in short chapters punctuated with eyewitness accounts and testimonies. (PLD04, $11.00)
 
 
Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II  •  Joseph Rothschild   • HISTORY • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  An opinionated, well-written and clear political history of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania since WWII, completely revised for this third edition to reflect post-Soviet realities. (EUR31, $34.95)
 
 
The Haunted Land, Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism  •  Tina Rosenberg   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  In this groundbreaking book, a journalist reports on how the newly democratized people of East Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic have confronted the horrors of their former governments. (EUR54, $16.95)
 
 
Baroque and Rococo Art  •  Germain Bazin   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An excellent illustrated survey of Baroque and Rococo art and architecture, this volume in the acclaimed "World of Art" series is a good companion to the golden age of Middle Europe. (EUR53, $16.95)
 
 
On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul  •  Jason Goodwin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Goodwin interweaves history, incident and reflection in this excellent portrait of Central Europe. With chapters on Cracow, Slovakia, Budapest, Transylvania, Brasov and Bulgaria (EUR81, $15.00)
 
 
Maus, A Survivor's Tale I & II  •  Art Spiegelman   • LITERATURE  •  The Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of Spiegelman's father and family in Poland as World War II erupts. He renders the story of his father's early life, Nazi occupation of Poland, survival in a concentration camp and other events as a stark graphic novel. (PLD22, $29.90)
 
 
The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (Down the Danube)  •  Peter Esterhazy   • LITERATURE  •  A confounding, postmodern novel, this meditation on travel, the Danube, and its history is great fun for those with an appreciation for wordplay and intellectual games. (HGR11, $19.00)
 
 
Yiddish Folktales  •  Beatrice Weinreich   • LITERATURE  •  A collection of 178 tales, many very short, of princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe. (CEU33, $18.00)
 
 


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