Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History From Publishers Weekly: "This vividly impressionistic travelogue splices a long trip in 1990 with sojourns in the '80s and forays into history, resulting in an unpredictable adventure that illuminates the Balkan nations' ethnic clashes and near-anarchic politics."

Also, with space devoted to Romania.

Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus From Publishers Weekly: "In 1993, as the blood-letting in Yugoslavia's ethnic civil war entered its fifth year, Kaplan, a foreign correspondent, wrote a history of that tragic region that became an instant bestseller."

This book covers a lot of ground, but wow, what a travelogue!

This is Radio PMR News from Transnistria A Propagandabook. A new book on the Tranddneistr region.

"The Kollektiv Fischka did extensive research on Transnistria over the last 5 years. The authors Kramar and Nimfuehr are the western journalist with the deepest knowledge of the breakaway region."

Beautiful Romania Amazon description: Nicolae Margineanu's documentaries could be the subject of anthropology courses in universities. This collector's edition brings together the Middle Ages and the 20th century, the castle and the peasant hut, the city and the village, music and architecure."Bran Castle"(disc 1) is a documentary about one of the most beautiful castles in Transylvania, while "Architecture and Power" (disc 2)is bringing the perspective of powerful dictators mixed in the act of reshaping the image of the city, Bucharest. "Romania and its traditional music" opens the musical treasures of the popular music with an unique point of view, the instruments. In the "Wind instruments" (disc 3), unchanged for centuries, amazingly simple techniques are used to create an ocarina from clay, a flute out of a twig and a bagpipe out of a goat hide. This and much more in a visual and melodical anthropological adventure into Romania and its traditional music. The "String Instruments" (disc 4), violin, cobza, broanca, tziboulca, tzitera, cembalo are creating the incredible sound of the Romanian folklore. "Percussion instruments" (disc 4), the bell board (toaca), the cow bells and little bells are so uniquely different that youll probably hear them for the very first time used in the making of music. Discover what is a buhai, or a dramba or how to make music using a simple leaf or a fish scale.

Ceausescu: The Unrepentant Tyrant For 24 years, he ruled his country with an iron hand. But the waves of freedom that swept Europe in 1989 cost him his life. Nicolae Ceausescu will be remembered as much for his sudden death as his long tenure as dictator of Rumania. Through extensive archival footage and interviews with those who served him, BIOGRAPHY chronicles the rise and fall of the man who was utterly consumed with a desire to be the best. See how, together with his wife, he fashioned an image of perfection for himself--and how he eliminated any who dared challenge it. Former communist activists share their memories of the young man who would become a despot, while Richard Nixon (in an interview conducted shortly before his death) talks about his dealings with the inflexible leader. And relive the events that finally toppled his regime and turned the people against him. From his childhood in rural Rumania to his execution by firing squad, this is the story of one of the most infamous tyrants of the 20th century.