Bijeg is a novel by the Croatian writer Milutin Cihlar Nehajev, here translated into English by Damir Janigro with the title Fugue. Regarded as a paramount example of Croatian... Læs mere
Beginning its narrative in 1961, when Albanian King Zog I died in a Paris hospital after 22 years in exile, this book tells the colourful story of this Balkan country's first and only monarch.
We have politics on our mind—or, rather, we have politics in different parts of our brains. In this path-breaking study, Matt Qvortrup takes the reader... Læs mere
This memoir about the experiences of German occupation during the siege of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) was written by Moscow-born Evdokiia Vasil’evna Baskakova-Bogacheva (1888–1976), an émigré in Australia, at the age of eighty-one.
Recounts how during the Cold War, the West fought off Soviet propaganda assaults with shortwave radio broadcasts through US-funded... Læs mere
Examines the resilient cultural heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on the transethnic character of folklore and customs shared by Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats, rather than the divisions that dominated their tragic recent past.
On Shaky Ground is a modernist novel written in the late 1930s and early 1940s and was originally published in Nazi occupied Kharkiv in 1942.
The Thickets is the first volume of Polish poet and novelist Józef Lobodowski’s Ukrainian Trilogy, written between 1955 and 1960. Set primarily in Russia’s Kuban region, the novel unfolds... Læs mere
Provides an objective, quantitative analysis of Hungary's post-World War II people's courts that tried wartime atrocity participants, with special focus on the gender aspects of these trials and their contribution to discussions of Hungarian war guilt.