GOODBYE, EASTERN EUROPE: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

Offers a tour of the various peoples who made Eastern Europe their home over the centuries, including the Roma, Jews, and Muslims; the great kingdoms of the medieval period; the rise and fall of the Ottoman, Habsburg, and Russian empires; the dawn of the modern era; the ravages of fascism and Communism; and the birth of the modern nation-state and beyond. Illus.