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L'area che, partendo dalle porte di Trieste, si estende lino a quelle di Salonicco rimane per molti, nella sua struttura storica e umana, una zona grigia, priva di una precisa fisionomia, simile a quelle terre inesplorate che gli antichi cartografi si limitavano a descrivere con uno sbrigativo "hic sunt leones". In realtà, quella fascià di territorio è da un millennio e mezzo teatro di un drammatico scontro di popoli, civiltà e religioni.

Seit vielen Jahren ist Karl Schlögel in der Ukraine unterwegs. Lemberg, Odessa, Czernowitz, Kiew, Charkiw, Donezk und Dnipropetrowsk: All diese Namen stehen für einst blühende Städte, für eine Kultur von eigenem Rang. Der Westen hat sie viel zu lange ignoriert, auch das ermunterte Putin zu seiner Expansionspolitik. Über 70 Jahre nach dem Ende des 2. Weltkriegs sind in Europa wieder Städte von der Auslöschung bedroht. In solchen Zeiten führen Karl Schlögels Städtebilder vor Augen, was gar nicht fern von uns auf dem Spiel steht.

While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. In this lyrical and intimate book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. Grounded in the true stories of activists and soldiers, parents, and children, Shore's book blends a narrative of suspenseful choices with a historian's reflections on what revolution is and what it means.

Berlin, 1962. Morale is at rock bottom in East Germany, thrown into chaos by the new Berlin Wall. The Ministry for State Security is hunting for a new weapon in the war against capitalism - and their solution is stranger than fiction. Rather than guns, tanks or bombs, the Stasi resolve to fight the enemy through rhyme and verse, winning the Culture Wars through poetry - and the result is the most bizarre book club in history. 

A vivid, brilliant, darkly humorous and horrifying history of some of the strangest dictators that Europe has ever seen. 'A witty and page-turning narrative full of grotesque characters' Misha Glenny 'Kenyon relates all this with verve [and] humour ... He patiently untangles the complicated webs...

Conozca los antecedentes históricos y el desarrollo de todos los conflictos que surgieron en la república socialista de Yugoslavia a partir de 1991, así como sus consecuencias y la situación actual de los distintos países nacidos tras su disolución: Eslovenia, Croacia, Bosnia y Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro y Macedonia.

Ukraine's sudden prominence in American politics has compounded an already-widespread misunderstanding of what is actually happening in the nation. In the American media, Ukraine has come to signify an inherently corrupt place, rather than a real country struggling in the face of great challenges. Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know addresses Ukraine's relations with the West, particularly the United States, from the perspective of Ukrainians.

All'alba del 26 aprile 1986, all'01:23:40, Aleksandr Akimov preme l'interruttore per l'arresto di emergenza del quarto reattore nucleare di Chernobyl. Quel gesto costringe alla permanente evacuazione di una città e sancisce l'inizio di un disastro nucleare che ha segnato la storia del mondo e il destino dell'Unione Sovietica. Seguiranno decenni di storie contraddittorie, esagerate e inesatte.

At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where the victorious Allied powers met to reenvision the map of Europe in the aftermath of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson's influence on the remapping of borders was profound. But despite his deep involvement in the region's geopolitical transformation, President Wilson never set eyes on Eastern Europe, and never traveled to a single one of the eastern lands whose political destiny he so decisively influenced.

Var den medeltida krigsherren en blodtörstig psykopat eller Europas räddning? Rumäniens medeltida krigsherre är känd under många ökända namn. För vissa är han mer känd som Vlad Pålspetsaren men framförallt som Dracula. Det är ett öknamn som avslöjar hans blodtörst och bästa avrättningsmetod: att spetsa sina offer på pålar och lämna deras ruttnande kvarlevor att kanta skogen.

In Polish: Applebaum presents the story of an inconceivable crime: “she describes the works of Stalin, which are only superseded by the Holocaust, but their cruelty and perfidy match the actions of Hitler” - Wacław Radziwinowicz (Polish journalist). This book describes Holodomor - the Great Famine in Ukraine between 1931 and 1933 which killed three million people and was man-made by the Soviet government.

No longer war, but not yet peace. A fascinating journey through 12 months of fear, hope, euphoria, and disappointment. A journalistic story about the most dramatic year of the 20th century. Grzebałkowska examines the fate of the last living witnesses of that time. She gives voices to the victims, but also the oppressors, especially when she can use them to show the post-war blending of roles and fates. 1945: War and Peace won the 2016 Nike Literary Audience Award.

After her brilliantly received literary debut, Urszula Dudziak returns with another book. I'll Sing You More.... is a serving of great anecdotes and inspiring stories from the life of this phenomenal artist and electrifying woman with charismatic personality. Urszula Dudziak exhorts other women to action, regardless of their age. She shows how to embrace every moment and live your life to the fullest.

“Soviet space program Interkosmos, the Iron Curtain, General Hermaszewski, and a frenzied race between world powers” - a fascinating reportage which unveils the circumstances of the Polish flight into space in June 1978. An excellent story telling that heroism cannot be planned, it can only happen on its own.

A millioner and a self-made businessman, Marek Zmysłowski, built African Amazon and became one of the most famous people in IT in Africa. One day it turned out that he's also a fugitive wanted by the Interpol. How did this happen? In his autobiography, Zmysłowski doesn't take himself too seriously and with humor shows the backstage of doing business, which was sometimes dangerous. With his journalistic verve, he draws a colorful picture of Africa, which became his favorite continent.

1968: The New Times Are Coming is a big journalistic story about the most rebellious year of the 20th century.

In Polish: A rascal with teenage beauty and the voice of Jan Himilsbach. She didn't really have to act. She appeared in the Polish cinema out of nowhere and became an instant phenomenon. At times, as told by her relatives in the book, she hurried as if she knew that everything wouldn't last very long, that she had to quickly start a relationship, start a family, and have kids in order to have time to enjoy all of that. It's the first biography of Anna Przybylska authorised by her family.

A collector of strange machines. An enthusiast of skiing and sweets. A world famous fantasy writer who kept many secrets, even from his own family. What did he do with the unsuccessful versions of his books? What did he do to anger Philip K. Dick? How did he survive three occupations of Lviv? In a word: Stanisław Lem's life was out of this world. It's a story full of unexpected twists of fate, funny anecdotes, tragic events, small secrets, and big mysteries. It's the first Polish biography of Stanisław Lem, written by another science fiction writer, Wojciech Orliński.

Emma Goldman was initially supportive of Russia’s Bolshevik revolution. This 1918 pamphlet was published in elucidation of the revolution and in justification of the Bolsheviks. Goldman reversed her opinion in the wake of the Kronstadt rebellion and denounced the Soviet Union for its violent repression of independent voices.

Tadeusz i Wojciech Kossakowie, synowie znanego malarza Juliusza, byli bliźniakami. Ożenili się z pannami Kisielnickimi, kuzynkami. Tadeusz i Anna byli rodzicami znanej pisarki: Zofii Kossak-Szczuckiej-Szatkowskiej. Wojciech i Maria wydali na świat poetkę: Lilkę (Marię Pawlikowską-Jasnorzewską), satyryczkę: Madzię (Magdalenę Samozwaniec) i malarza: Jerzego Kossaka. Jak to się stało, że domy podobnych do siebie jak dwie krople wody braci, które prowadziły tak podobne do siebie kobiety, prawie siostry - były odległe, jak dwa różne światy?