The Short End of the Sonnenallee by Thomas Brussig, Jonathan Franzen and Jenny Watson (translator)Requirements: .ePUB readers, RetailOverview: Thomas Brussig’s classic German novel, The Short End of the Sonnenallee, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the Wall […]
Armies of the Russo-Polish War 1919-21 (Osprey Men at Arms #497) by Nigel ThomasRequirements: .ePUB reader, 9.7 MBOverview: In 1917 Poland was recognised as a state by Russia, but the Bolshevik coup threatened this. The Polish leader Marshal Pilsudski hurried to build an army around Polish World War I veterans, and in 1918 war broke […]
Learn Russian the Fast and Fun Way by Thomas R. Beyer Jr. Ph.D. Requirements: .PDF reader, 11.6mbOverview: Barron’s popular Fast and Fun Way foreign language learning programs are designed primarily for travelers to foreign countries but are also suitable for instruction in classrooms and language labs. Learn Russian the Fast and Fun Way is filled […]
Byzantium and the Bosporus: A Historical Study, from the Seventh Century BC until the Foundation of Constantinople by Thomas RussellRequirements: .PDF reader, 17 MBOverview: In 330 AD, the Emperor Constantine consecrated the new capital of the eastern Roman Empire on the site of the ancient city of Byzantium. Its later history is well known, yet […]
The Russian Revolution as Ideal and Practice: Failures, Legacies, and the Future of Revolution by Thomas Telios, Dieter Thomä, Ulrich SchmidRequirements: .PDF reader, 3 MBOverview: This volume aims to commemorate, criticize, scrutinize and assess the undoubted significance of the Russian Revolution both retrospectively and prospectively in three parts. Part I consists of a palimpsest of […]