art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Ghetto Diary
ISBN: PB: 9780300097429, Yale University Press, June 2003
192 pp., 21x14 cm
Janusz Korczak (1879-1942) is one of the legendary figures to emerge from the Holocaust. A successful paediatrician and well-known author in his native Warsaw, he gave up a brilliant medical career to devote himself to the care of orphans. Like so ma...
PB:
£14,99
QTY:
Napoleon and the Invasion of Britain
ISBN: PB: 9781851240814, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2003
132 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 148 colour illus.
Chronicling the real fear of a Napoleonic invasion of Britain from 1798 to 1805, this book reconstructs Britain's political, social and military response, and tells the story of the forces dividing the nation in the 1790s, and the debates underlying...
PB:
£15,00
QTY:
Deaf People in Hitler's Europe
ISBN: PB: 9781563681325, Gallaudet University Press, December 2002
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Inspired by the conference "Deaf People in Hitler's Europe, 1933-1945", hosted jointly by Gallaudet University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998, this extraordinary collection, organized into three parts, integrates key presenta...
PB:
£22,00
QTY:
Balkan Exchange of Minorities and Its Impact on Greece
ISBN: PB: 9781850656746, ISBN: HB: 9781850657026, Hurst Publishers, October 2002
220 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The defeat of the Greek armies in Asia Minor in August 1922, led directly to the flight of Greek refugees from Asia Minor, the compulsory exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey and the resettlement in Greece of 1.3 m...
PB:
£25,00
QTY:
HB:
£50,00
QTY:
Greece: The Modern Sequel From 1821 to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9781850654636, Hurst Publishers, October 2002
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This historical essay explores Greece in the 1990s. It seeks to illuminate vital aspects of the Greek phenomenon using themes such as politics, institutions, society, ideology, foreign policy, geography and culture. Founding pr...
PB:
£16,99
QTY:
Catherine the Great A Short History
ISBN: PB: 9780300097221, Yale University Press, September 2002
256 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 17 illus.
Ivan IV, "the Terrible" (1533-1584) is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among the most neglected. Notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror – and for killing his own son – he has been credited with establi...
PB:
£9,99
QTY:
Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944
ISBN: HB: 9780300044942, Yale University Press, September 2002
808 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For five horrifying years in Vilna, the Vilna ghetto, and concentration camps in Estonia, Herman Kruk recorded his own experiences as well as the life and death of the Jewish community of the city symbolically called "The Jerusalem of Lithuania". Thi...
HB:
£70,00
QTY:
Under His Very Windows The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy
ISBN: PB: 9780300093100, Yale University Press, February 2002
434 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, black&white illus.
Pope Pius XII has often been criticized for his silence during the extermination of European Jewry during World War II. In his defense, some have alleged that the pope was doing a great deal to help the Jews but that his efforts were necessarily behi...
PB:
£31,00
QTY:
Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter
ISBN: PB: 9780300093766, Yale University Press, February 2002
200 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 illus.
This memoir tells the story of the Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto who defied the Nazis against impossible odds. Kazik and his fellow Jews smuggled in arms and explosives, performed acts of resistance, held off the Nazi army for almos...
PB:
£18,00
QTY:
Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia
ISBN: PB: 9781584651604, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2001
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
ChaeRan Freeze explores the impact of various forces on marriage and divorce among Jews in 19th-century Russia. Challenging romantic views of the Jewish family in the shtetl, she shows that divorce rates among Russian Jews in the first half of the ce...
PB:
£32,00
QTY: