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1.The Zookeeper s Wife: A War StoryThe Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
from W. W. Norton
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When average people are confronted by extreme circumstances and respond by behaving with extraordinary compassion and bravery, their example challenges us all. The story of the Zabinski family and their efforts sheltering Polish Jews and Resistance fighters in the remains of the Warsaw Zoo during... more info

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2.Zlata s Diary: A Child s Life in Wartime SarajevoRevised EditionZlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime SarajevoRevised Edition
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Price: $10.40

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Zlata's diary is a an autobiographical representation of a young teenage girl, called Zlata Filipovi, and the daily living conditions that she experienced preceding and during military conflict in Eastern Europe - Sarajevo. In the course of her writing, Zlata described the conversion of her... more info

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3.ImperiumImperium
from Vintage
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This is a great book, all of Kapuscinski`s books are great. It takes you for a journey you don`t expect. Great style and I always regret it`s over, after I finish to read his book.

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4.Natasha s Dance: A Cultural History of RussiaNatasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
from Metropolitan Books

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Having lived in Russia six years and still in business there since 1991, I quickly learned that in Russia there is not only the proverbial two sides of the coin, but often three. Figes cetainly examines that underside of what makes a Russian different. He does it with revealing research and obvious... more info

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5.Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman EmpireLords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
from Picador
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Sometimes a history ends up being more poetic and moving than a work of fiction. This is one of those histories. Beautifully written and unpredictable, here is the tale of an empire whose demise created rifts that still have to be addressed, much less solved, in our post Iron-Curtain, post 9/11... more info

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6.Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their JourneyBury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
from Vintage
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Upon a single reading, "Bury me Standing" seemed a well-deserved historical and literary triumph: a careful, if not an urgently honest, much needed and a beautifully unpretentious recording of Roma history. Out of a sense of pure urgency flowed a new voice: a window into a new, unfamiliar,... more info

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7.Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two WorldsCrescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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The army is an Ataturk fundemantalist and is holding Turkey back. Kinzer has a very good /sense/ of the Turks and wants them to be a progessive force in moving on with the 21st century. As a journalist he wrote a superb book. He travelled the country and spoke to a wide range of people. The Turks... more info

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8.Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through HistoryBalkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
from Vintage

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Robert Kaplan's Balkan Ghosts is more than a travel book for most of his experiences in the Balkan's were far from tourism. Rather, like Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, his book explores time and place with the precision of an anthropologist.
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9.Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Penguin Classics)Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Penguin Classics)
from Penguin Classics
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This book recounts a journey made by the author and her husband as they traveled through Croatia, Dalmatia, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Old Serbia, and Montenegro at a time when Hitter threatened to engulf all of Europe in a World War.
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10.The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the WorldThe Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
from Simon & Schuster
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The Great Escape by Kati Marton. The book is about the lives of amazing Jewish Hungarians who fled Hitler and impacted the world. The character that I enjoyed reading about was Leo Szilard because he was one of the scientists that help create the atom bomb. The book also references the dramatic poem... more info

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