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Notes of a Russian Sniper by Vassili Zaitsev
RRP: £14.99£10.95'As a sniper, I've killed more than a few Nazis. I have a passion for observing enemy behaviour. You watch a Nazi officer come out of a bunker, acting all high and mighty, ordering his soldiers every which way, and putting on an air of authority. The... -
Who Lost Russia?: From the Collapse of the USSR to Putin's War in Ukraine by Peter Conradi
RRP: £10.99£7.12'A must read for anyone interested in the future of Europe and the world as a whole.' Serhii Plokhy, author of The Last Empire An essential insight into Russia's relations with Ukraine, the US and beyond Why did Vladimir Putin launch his... -
Hell Riders: The Truth About the Charge of the Light Brigade by Terry Brighton 9780141018317
RRP: £16.99£12.28On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history. Almost 700 men armed with sabre and lance, charged straight at the muzzles of Russian... -
The Russian Civil War (1): The Red Army by Mikhail Khvostov
RRP: £12.99£11.01The main instrument with which the Bolsheviks imposed communism on Russia was the Red Army. Traditionally the origins of this army were among the factory workers who laid down their tools and took up arms as a way of expressing their grievances. Already... -
The Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-3 Vol. II by Dariusz Paduch
RRP: £24.00£16.96The I-200 fighter project was a compromise between design office's capabilities, realities of the Soviet aviation industry, with its available technologies, and military requirements.According to the brief description of the MiG-3 from 1941, it was, in... -
American Diplomacy by George F. Kennan
RRP: £21.00£20.31For more than fifty years, George F. Kennan's "American Diplomacy" has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of an... -
Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty by Norman M Naimark
RRP: £16.95£13.85A Financial Times Best Book of the YearWinner of the Norris and Carol Hundley AwardWinner of the US-Russia Relations Book Prize"The achievement of a lifetime."-Stephen Kotkin, author of Stalin"Naimark has few peers as a scholar of Stalinism, the Soviet... -
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
RRP: £25.00£22.19Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to... -
Stalin's Gamble: The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930-1936 by Michael Jabara Carley 9781487544416
RRP: £66.00£62.45Shedding light on the origins of the Second World War in Europe, Stalin's Gamble aims to create a historical narrative of the relations of the USSR with Britain, France, the United States, Poland, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Romania during the... -
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: £10.99£7.77Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph'Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth' - Caroline Moorehead, GuardianExtraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child... -
Chernobyl by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99£14.05On 26 April 1986, the unthinkable happened near the Ukrainian town of Pripyat: two massive steam explosions ruptured No. 4 Reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, immediately killing 30 people and setting off the worst nuclear accident in history... -
Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 by Rosa Magnusdottir 9780190681463
RRP: £82.00£59.26Enemy Number One tells the story of the Soviet cultural and propaganda apparatus and its efforts to control information about the United States in the postwar landscape. Beginning with the 1945 meeting of American and Soviet troops on the Elbe, this... -
Meanwhile, in Russia...: Russian Internet Memes and Viral Video by Professor Eliot Borenstein
RRP: £13.99£12.61The Russian internet is a hotbed for memes and viral videos: the political, satirical and simply absurd compete for attention in Russia while the West turns to it for an endless reserve of humorous content. But how did this powerful cyber community grow... -
Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front: Volume II: Russia, Hungary Lithuania, and the battle for East Prussia by Hans Heinz Rehfeldt 9781784383657
RRP: £25.00£18.02Returning to his old unit, the grenade launcher, in May 1944, he experienced the heavy defensive battles in Romania as a platoon commander and from August 1944 in East Prussia and Lithuania. After being transferred by ship from Memel to Konigsberg in... -
T-80 Standard Tank: The Soviet Army's Last Armored Champion by Steven Zaloga
RRP: £12.99£11.01The history of the little-known yet controversial T-80 and its subsequent variants. The Soviet T-80 Standard Tank was the last tank fielded before the Soviet collapse, and the most controversial. Despite having the most sophisticated fire controls and... -
Russian Food since 1800: Empire at Table by Professor Catriona Kelly 9781350192782
RRP: £12.99£11.65In Russia, food has a hugely important role in political, symbolic, and practical terms. In this illuminating history of Russian food in the modern age, Catriona Kelly - a leading cultural historian and keen amateur cook - reflects on this and an... -
Collision of Empires by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.68Collision of Empires is the first major historical work on the Eastern Front during World War I since the 1970s. One of the primary triggers of the outbreak of World War I was undoubtedly the myriad alliances and suspicions that existed between the... -
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family by Helen Rappaport
RRP: £10.99£7.77Shortlisted for the HWA Sharpe Books Non-Fiction Crown AwardA work of investigative history that will completely change the way in which we see the Romanov story. Finally, here is the truth about the secret plans to rescue Russia's last imperial family... -
Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia by Max Egremont
RRP: £14.99£11.13East Prussia is no longer on any map, though it was once a thriving land, famously military, deeply forested, artistically fertile, and the birthplace of Immanuel Kant. As the scene of Stalin's 'terrible revenge' it came to embody the turbulence of the... -
The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet by Andrei Soldatov
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both.On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in an otherwise residential district of southwest Moscow, in... -
Leninism: Volume Two by Joseph Stalin
RRP: £36.99£32.53Translated from the Russian in 1933, this and the first volume of the same title give an invaluable picture of what the Russian leader Joseph Stalin understood by Leninism. Building on the pamphlet Foundations of Leninism, (which forms the first part of... -
Tupolev Tu-22M: Soviet/Russian Swing-Wing Heavy Bomber by Yefim Gordon
RRP: £59.99£40.06The only English-language book in print on this active-duty Russian supersonic bomber. In the late 1960s, the patriarch of Soviet aircraft design, Andrey Tupolev, offered the Soviet air force a supersonic bomber to replace the 1950s-vintage Tu-22... -
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham
RRP: £25.00£16.53From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the incredible true story behind the creation of a masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and PunishmentIn the summer of 1865, the former exile Dostoevsky found himself trapped in... -
The Ravine: A family, a photograph, a Holocaust massacre revealed by Wendy Lower
RRP: £9.99£7.11A strikingly original book about a terrible photograph - an exceptionally rare image documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family in Ukraine. A Times Book of the Year 'A very rare kind of picture... To the murdered others, this... -
Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.68The Baltic States suffered more than almost any other territory during World War II, caught on the front-line of some of the war's most vicious battles and squeezed between the vast military might of the German Wehrmacht and the Soviet Red Army. From an... -
The Russian S-300 and S-400 Missile Systems by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £12.99£9.09An expert account of the development, role, and capabilities of the S-300 and S-400 air defence missile systems, key strategic weapons in Putin's Russia. Few modern missile systems have had such significance as the S-300 family. Highly regarded... -
Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed 9781642590029
RRP: £19.99£13.56Ten Days That Shook the World is an undisputed classic of political reportage. A stunning first-hand account overflowing with urgency and immediacy, Reed's masterpiece lives and breathes the streets, meeting halls, posters and pamphlets of the... -
Barbarossa by Stewart Binns
RRP: £20.00£12.07Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of the Second World War.On June 22nd, 1941 the largest military invasion in human history was launched - an attack on the... -
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service 9781509883059 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.70In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, acclaimed biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky and one of the finest historians of modern Russia, brings his deep understanding of that country to bear on the man who leads it. 'One of our most accomplished, erudite... -
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service 9781509883059
RRP: £10.99£7.93In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, acclaimed biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky and one of the finest historians of modern Russia, brings his deep understanding of that country to bear on the man who leads it. 'One of our most accomplished, erudite... -
Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe by Anne Applebaum
RRP: £12.99£9.09A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz, the dramatic world of the Eastern borderlands... -
The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky 9780486433981
RRP: £16.99£11.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486433981Author Leon TrotskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History by John Lewis Gaddis
£57.08The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective, one reflecting Soviet, East European, and Chinese as well as American and West European viewpoints. In a major departure... -
The Border - A Journey Around Russia: SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 by Erika Fatland 9780857057815
RRP: £30.00£19.80A journey along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way."Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the... -
China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord by Philip Snow
RRP: £25.00£20.92A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for... -
Interrogation Nation: Refugees and Spies in Cold War Germany by Keith R. Allen 9781538101513
RRP: £99.00£91.14This groundbreaking book explores the treatment of the millions of refugees and tens of thousands of spies that flooded Germany after World War II. Drawing on newly declassified espionage files, Keith R. Allen uncovers long-hidden interrogation systems... -
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine
RRP: £20.00£17.49The epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of... -
Just the Plague by Polly Gannon 9781783788057
RRP: £9.99£6.70Rudolf Maier, a young microbiologist working on a plague vaccine, is summoned to Moscow to deliver a progress report to his superiors. Inadvertently, he carries the virus with him from the lab. When his illness is discovered, the state machinery turns... -
Stalin Waiting For ... The Truth! by Grover Furr 9780578445533
RRP: £25.00£20.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578445533Author Grover FurrFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Red Star PublishersPublisher Red Star PublishersWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Ivan's War: The Red Army at War 1939-45 by Catherine Merridale
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.' Antony Beevor, Sunday Times They died in their millions, shattered by German shells and tanks, freezing behind the wire of prison...