The Other Europe: Eastern Europe to 1945 [Paperback]

Garrison Walters (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd); First edition. edition (May 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815624409
• ISBN-13: 978-0815624400
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #459,447 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Garrison Walters has lived and traveled extensively in central and southeastern Europe. A Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Walters has studied most of the languages of the area and mastered a few but is currently fluent only in Old High Bureaucratic. His comprehensive history of the region, The Other Europe, has been in print for over twenty years and is used as a text at many universities. Walters, who has worked as an academic administrator, has a long background in the Korean martial art of taekwondo. His Essential Guide to Computing has been praised as a "tour de force." Writing continues to be Walters' principal preoccupation and he has recently published two thrillers: Killing Justice (2010) and The Transylvania Connection, (Dailey-Swan, 2009). Walters resides in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Country by Country look at Eastern Europe, January 10, 2003

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Justin Reynolds (Madrid) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Other Europe: Eastern Europe to 1945 (Paperback)

Unlike most history books on the region Walters takes you through the history of Eastern Europe chronologically but breaks down each chapter in sections for each country. This is nice if you want to reference the history of say Albania in the in 1920's and do not want to search or read the whole chapter. However because the narrative is disjointed it can be difficult to draw inferences about relations between nations. Also if read from cover to cover the story gets confusing as you jump from country to country.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good introduction, June 28, 2002

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Glenn McDorman (Denver) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Other Europe: Eastern Europe to 1945 (Paperback)

This book can serve as a good introduction to anyone interested in studying Eastern Europe. Read this book, and then go on to more detailed works. In the back, Walters has an excellent bibliography.