Early Modern Eastern Europe (24 books)

The best history books about Early Modern Eastern Europe. Chronologically c. 1400-1800, geographically, whatever you think fits in here. Ottoman Europe is certainly welcome. My initial list is heavy on Poland-Lithuania, because that's what I know best.
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1	God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 1: The Origins to 1795 by Norman Davies 4.22 avg rating — 797 ratings score: 195, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
1	Teutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior: The Lithuanian Crusade 1283–1435 (Combat, 69) by Mark Galeotti 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 195, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569–1772 by Karin Friedrich 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 181, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther: The Reformation before Confessionalization by Natalia Nowakowska 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Between Lipany and White Mountain: Essays in Late Medieval and Early Modern Bohemian History in Modern Czech Scholarship (Studies in Central European Histories, 58) by James R. Palmitessa (Editor, Introduction) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Dimitri and the false Tsars by Hans Baumann 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Hussite Wars 1419–36 (Men-at-Arms, 409) by Stephen Turnbull 3.64 avg rating — 39 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic: Sixteenth-Century Ethnographic Accounts of Baltic Paganism by Francis Young (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century by Adam Teller 4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Hussite Wars: The History and Legacy of the Conflicts Between the Catholics and Protestants in Central Europe by Charles River Editors 3.70 avg rating — 30 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Kith, Kin, and Neighbors: Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno by David A. Frick 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Warrior of God: Jan Zizka and the Hussite Revolution by Victor Verney 3.80 avg rating — 94 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania Volume I: The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385-1569 by Robert I. Frost 4.32 avg rating — 56 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Hussites by Stephen E. Lahey 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy Of Modernity by Gershon David Hundert 4.14 avg rating — 37 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Siege of Vienna: The Last Great Trial Between Cross and Crescent by John Stoye 3.56 avg rating — 270 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Northern Wars: War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558-1721 (Modern Wars in Perspective series) by Robert I. Frost 3.86 avg rating — 65 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Siege of Vienna (1529): The History and Legacy of the Decisive Battle that Prevented the Ottoman Empire’s Expansion into Western Europe by Charles River Editors 3.67 avg rating — 33 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795 by Daniel Stone (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Bulwark of Christendom: the Turkish Sieges of Vienna 1529 & 1683 by Karl August Schimmer 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500-1700 by Brian L. Davies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Jan Sobieski: The King Who Saved Europe by Miltiades Varvounis (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 75 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	After the Deluge: Poland-Lithuania and the Second Northern War, 1655 - 1660 by Robert I. Frost 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Renaissance Culture in Poland: The Rise of Humanism, 1470-1543 by Harold B. Segel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars