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Balkans, The by Mark Mazower
Category: History | Series: Universal History Ser.
At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe forever. But two hundred years earlier, the Balkans did not exist. It was not the Balkans but the
Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower
Category: Education
"A useful, important book that reminds us, at the right time, how hard [European unity] has been, and how much care must be taken to avoid the terrible old temptations." --"Los Angeles Times" Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy w ...Show more
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower
Category: History
Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of Europe in history. Inspired by the imperial legacy of those such as the British, the Third Reich cast its shadow from the Channel Islands to the Caucasus and ruled hundreds of millions. Yet, as Mark Mazower's groundbreaking new ...Show more
Salonica, City of Ghosts : Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower
Category: History
The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. Salonica is the point where the wonders and horrors of the Orient and Europe have met over the centuries ...Show more
Salonica, City of Ghosts Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower
Category: Non-Fiction
Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until ...Show more
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower
Category: History
A thrilling history of the revolutionary birth of modern Greece In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, there was one cause that came to galvanize countless individuals across Europe and the United States- freedom for Greece. Mark Mazower's wonderful new book recreate ...Show more
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower
Category: History
'A masterful portrait of a historic watershed' Publishers Weekly'Elucidating, indispensable' KirkusA thrilling history of the revolutionary birth of modern Greece from 'the preeminent historian of a generation' (Misha Glenny)In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, the ...Show more
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home by Mark Mazower
Category: History
**NAMED FINANCIAL TIMES "TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR"****NAMED EVENING STANDARD "BOOK OF THE YEAR"****NAMED NEW STATESMAN "BEST BOOK OF 2017"** A warm and intimate memoir by an acclaimed historian that explores the European struggles of the twentieth century through the lives, hopes, and dreams of a si ...Show more
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home by Mark Mazower
Category: Biography
Uncovering their remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their descendants. It was a family which fate drove into the siege of Stalingrad, the Vilna ghetto, occupied Paris, and even into the ranks of the Wehrmacht. His British father ...Show more
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past & the Journey Home by Mark Mazower
Category: History
Uncovering his family's remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their descendants. It was a family that fate drove into the siege of Stalingrad, the Vilna ghetto, occupied Paris, and even into the ranks of the Wehrmacht. His British f ...Show more
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