A travel guide to Eastern and Central Europe, providing descriptions of attractions in sixteen cities and countries, and featuring listings of places to eat, stay, and shop. Includes maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Discusses the recent tumultuous events in Eastern Europe, focusing on the rise and fall of communism. Uses photographs and maps to document the changes.
Discusses how ethnic and religious differences, along with economic hardships, have led large numbers of Eastern Europeans to emigrate to other countries, and how they have adjusted.
Explores the history, politics, economics, technological and artistic developments, and quality of life of five Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
Presents a collection of essays and speeches by prominent figures such as Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and others that chronicle the events and issues connected to the Cold War.
Contains seventy black-and-white photographs--taken with a hidden camera--of children in the Jewish communities of Poland, Romania, Russia, and Hungary in the years between 1935 and 1938; and includes a selection of nursery rhymes, songs, poems, and chants, presented in Yiddish and English.
Two cousins, irreversibly changed by a childhood prank whose devastating consequences changed both their lives, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, where the men re-enact the single event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results.
