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Bulgaria In Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series)
Margaret J. Goldstein
$29.15

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Bulgaria Travel Pack (Globetrotter Travel Packs)
Globetrotter
$8.47

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Cruising Bulgaria & Romania
Nicky Allardice
$40.94

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A new guide to the Black Sea coast North of Istanbul up to the Ukrainian border. This guide includes the Danube delta and tributaries. Nicky Allardice has lived and worked in both countries and his guide is based on extensive first hand experience. The publication of Cruising Bulgaria and Romania coincides with those countries becoming members of the EU and the consequent easing of regulations for visitors.

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Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria
Kapka Kassabova
$10.99

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Kassabova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and grew up under the drab, muddy, grey mantle of one of communism’s most mindlessly authoritarian regimes. Escaping with her family as soon as possible after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, she lived in Britain, New Zealand, and Argentina, and several other places. But when Bulgaria was formally inducted to the European Union she decided it was time to return to the home she had spent most of her life trying to escape. What she found was a country languishing under the strain of transition. This two-part memoir of Kapka’s childhood and return explains life on the other side of the Iron Curtain.

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Wily Fox: How King Boris Saved the Jews of Bulgaria from the Clutches of his Axis Ally Adolf Hitler
Carl Steinhouse
$14.24

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No government allied with, or occupied, by Germany, could withstand Hitler's demands to give up their Jews for total extermination by the Nazis under the Final Solution. Well, that is not quite true, and that is the crux of Wily Fox. Little Bulgaria, allied with Hitler in World War II, did just that. This is the story of how King Boris III out maneuvered and outwitted Hitler and used Hitler's own lies against him to protect Bulgaria's Jews.

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Crown of Thorns: The Reign of King Boris III of Bulgaria, 1918-1943
Stephane Groueff
$15.73

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A fascinating biography of Bulgaria's tragic monarch, Boris III, based on private correspondence and extensive interviews with members of the Bulgarian royal family. The son of King Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Boris became king after the first World W

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The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust
Tzvetan Todorov
$19.51

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With the exception of Denmark, Bulgaria was the only country allied with Nazi Germany that did not annihilate or turn over its Jewish population. Here a prominent French intellectual with Bulgarian roots accounts for this singularity.

Tzvetan Todorov assembles and interprets for the first time key evidence from this episode of Bulgarian history, including letters, diaries, government reports, and memoirs--most never before translated into any language. Through these documents, he reconstructs what happened in Bulgaria during World War II and interrogates collective memories of that time. He recounts the actions of individuals and groups that, ultimately and collectively, spared Bulgaria's Jews the fate of most European Jews.

The Bulgaria that emerges is not a heroic country dramatically different from those countries where Jews did perish. Todorov does find heroes, especially parliament deputy Dimitar Peshev, certain writers and clergy, and--most inspiring--public opinion. Yet he is forced to conclude that the "good" triumphed to the extent that it did because of a tenuous chain of events. Any break in that chain--one intellectual who didn't speak up as forcefully, a different composition in Orthodox Church leadership, a misstep by a particular politician, a less wily king--would have undone all of the other efforts with disastrous results for almost 50,000 people.

The meaning Todorov settles on is this: Once evil is introduced into public view, it spreads easily, whereas goodness is temporary, difficult, rare, and fragile. And yet possible.

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The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)
Kristen Ghodsee
$18.94

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This compelling ethnography of women working in Bulgaria’s popular sea and ski resorts challenges the idea that women have consistently fared worse than men in Eastern Europe’s transition from socialism to a market economy. For decades western European tourists have flocked to Bulgaria’s beautiful beaches and mountains; tourism is today one of the few successful—and expanding—sectors of the country’s economy. Even at the highest levels of management, employment in the tourism industry has long been dominated by women. Kristen Ghodsee explains why this is and how women working in the industry have successfully negotiated their way through Bulgaria’s capitalist transformation while the fortunes of most of the population have plummeted. She highlights how, prior to 1989, the communist planners sought to create full employment for all at the same time that they steered women into the service sector. The women given jobs in tourism obtained higher educations, foreign language skills, and experiences working with Westerners, all of which positioned them to take advantage of the institutional changes eventually brought about by privatization.

Interspersed throughout The Red Riviera are vivid examinations of the lives of Bulgarian women, including a waitress, a tour operator, a chef, a maid, a receptionist, and a travel agent. Through these women’s stories, Ghodsee describes their employment prior to 1989 and after. She considers the postsocialist forces that have shaped the tourist industry over the past fifteen years: the emergence of a new democratic state, the small but increasing interest of foreign investors and transnational corporations, and the proliferation of ngos. Ghodsee suggests that many of the ngos, by insisting that Bulgarian women are necessarily disenfranchised, ignore their significant professional successes.

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Dreams and Shadows
Radka Yakimov
$15.76

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Dreams and Shadows is a story about the lives of people trapped in the oppressive reality of a totalitarian regime. This is Bulgaria, a Balkan country, which was overrun by the Red Army on September 9, 1944 and became one of the “satellites” to the former USSR. It remained in the Soviet orbit of influence until November 10, 1989. This is a story of lost futures, struggles, survival, and quest for freedom; a journey along a road paved with broken dreams and dashed hopes. The story begins with a child’s recollections: from the carpet bombings the capital city of Sofia was subjected to during 1943 and 1944, to the dramatic changes after September 9, 1944 and how they affected the everyday lives of the people of Bulgaria. It also describes the hopes and disappointments of the people affected by “the changes” after 1989: the attempt to reconnect, after a long separation, with one’s country of birth, only to come to the realization that one does not belong there anymore, yet is never really emotionally free from it.

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Liberation Of Bulgaria, War Notes In 1877
Wentworth Huyshe
$18.55

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War correspondent?s graphic view of the 1877 war between Russia and Turkey that led to the liberation of Bulgaria after centuries of Ottoman rule.