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City of Lions by Jozef Wittlin
RRP: £12.99£8.56Lviv, Lwow, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during its history, it is a city located along the fault-lines of Europe's history. City of Lions presents two essays,... -
Soviet Tank Units 1939-45: The Essential Tank Identification Guide by David Porter
RRP: £19.99£14.05Soviet Tank Units 1939-45 offers an highly-illustrated guide to the main armoured fighting vehicles used by the Red Army during World War II. This compact volume includes sample unit structures and orders of battle from company up to corps level,... -
Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution: Fighting Words by Michael C. Hickey 9780313385230
£69.85This new collection of documents helps students understand the complex texture of Russian public rhetoric and popular debate during World War I and the 1917 Revolution. How better to understand history than through the words of those who lived it?... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-1953 by Sally Waller
£37.34Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining well-loved features from the previous editions, Revolution and Dictatorship... -
In Defence of Lenin: Volume 2 by Rob Sewell 9781913026967
RRP: £19.99£19.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913026967Author Rob SewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Wellred BooksPublisher Wellred BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 43mm -
Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies by Mark Hollingsworth
RRP: £20.00£14.29There's no such thing as a former KGB man... 'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of control, accountable to no one but... -
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder
RRP: £10.99£7.77From the author of international bestseller On Tyranny, this prescient analysis of Russia's ongoing interference in the West is now more relevant than ever. 'One of the best...brisk, conceptually convincing account of democracy's retreat in the early... -
Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £25.00£19.21The Financial Times - Best books of 2022: Politics 'The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right book at the right time.' The Times A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably... -
Russian Aircraft of World War II by Edward Ward
RRP: £17.99£12.39Organised chronologically by type, Russian Aircraft of World War II offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main types of aircraft used by the Soviet Air Force during World War II. The book provides a comprehensive survey of combat aircraft, from the... -
St Petersburg: a Cultural History by Solomon Volkov 9780684832968
£29.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684832968Author Solomon VolkovFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 938gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Beyond by Stephen Walker
RRP: £20.00£18.02'Thrilling ... High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched' SUNDAY TIMES 'This book is a triumph' DAN SNOW 9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A... -
Stalingrad Airlift 1942–43: The Luftwaffe's broken promise to Sixth Army by William E. Hiestand
RRP: £16.99£12.28The story of what really led to Germany losing the battle of Stalingrad - the inability of the Luftwaffe to keep Sixth Army supplied throughout the winter of 1942-43 - and why this crucial airlift failed. Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering's failure to... -
Operation Bagration: The Soviet Destruction of German Army Group Center, 1944 by Ian Baxter
RRP: £19.99£14.28Bagration was the code word that the Soviet Army gave for their summer offensive in 1944. This massive offensive led to the destruction of the German Army Group Center and was the greatest military defeat ever experienced by the German Army during World... -
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine by Owen Matthews
RRP: £25.00£16.83Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023 *Shortlisted for the... -
Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Brisk and thoughtful, this book could hardly be more timely' Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine, Books of the YearFrom a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prize-winning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialismIn... -
Memoirs Of A Revolutionary by Victor Serge
RRP: £13.99£9.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174517Author Victor SergeFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Battle for Warsaw, 1939-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781526741509
RRP: £14.99£10.95During the Second World War five brutal battles were fought in and around Warsaw. Each proved to be dramatic, decisive and bloody, and in this volume of the Images of War series Anthony Tucker-Jones records them all in graphic detail. The first occurred... -
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 by Anne Applebaum
RRP: £16.99£12.28Chosen 16 times as a 'Book of the Year' - the top non-fiction pick of 2012'The best work of modern history I have ever read' A. N. Wilson, Financial TimesAt the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge... -
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick 9781913083151
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083151Author Sheila FitzpatrickFormat HardbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Berezina 1812: Napoleon's Hollow Victory by Professor Alexander Mikaberidze
RRP: £15.99£11.61A superbly illustrated narrative of how Napoleon skilfully extracted his Grande Armee from the clutches of the pursuing Russian armies. Much has been written about the Battle of the Berezina and the 1812 Russian campaign in general, during which the... -
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes
RRP: £18.99£13.61Orlando Figes' The Whisperers is a groundbreaking account of daily life in the chaotic and paranoid atmosphere of Stalinist Russia. Exploring the inner life of a Russia where everyone was afraid to talk and society spoke in whispers, whether to protect... -
My Russia: War or Peace? by Mikhail Shishkin 9781529427813
RRP: £12.99£7.51In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what is the real story behind Putin's autocratic regime and its invasion of Ukraine?In My Russia:... -
The Russian Revolution by Victor Sebestyen
RRP: £27.99£19.61An illustrated account of one of the most pivotal events in modern history - the Russian revolution of 1917. In the early years of the twentieth century, Imperial Russia was an ethnically diverse empire, stretching from Ukraine and Belarus in the west... -
Spetsnaz: The Inside Story of the Soviet Special Forces by Viktor Suvorov 9780393335576
RRP: £18.50£15.41This is the first comprehensive insight for the West into a Soviet "army within an army" whose existence has been known until recently only to a few highly placed people--most of whom would deny it. The spetsnaz Soviet special forces are one of the more... -
My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917-1953 by Neil Owen
RRP: £12.50£11.84Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine by Mark Galeotti 9781472847553
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Financial Times - Best books of 2022: Politics 'The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right book at the right time.' The Times A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably... -
The Wagner Group: From Savage Global Mercenaries to Vladimir Putin's Unlikely Nemesis by Owen Wilson 9781783342563
RRP: £14.99£12.55This is the first book on the Wagner Group, the shadowy Russian paramilitary organisation that fought in Ukraine and staged a surprise uprising against Vladimir Putin on 23-24 June. It has been involved in conflicts in Syria, Libya, the Central African... -
The Russian Concubine: 'Wonderful . . . hugely ambitious and atmospheric' Kate Mosse by Kate Furnivall 9780751540420
RRP: £10.99£6.47Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
War With Russia: A Menacing Account by General Sir Richard Shirreff
RRP: £10.99£7.78The chilling political thriller dangerously close to becoming reality 'This is key reading. Full of foresight, by General turned prophet.' Dr. Peter Caddick-Adams'Make no mistake: if Russia marches into the Baltics it means nuclear war.' Damian... -
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border by Timothy Phillips 9781783785780
RRP: £10.99£7.32An epic journey across 5,000 kilometres and through eight decades, to tell a new story about the old Cold War faultlines With the fall of the Berlin Wall, it seemed that the old divisions between East and West had been consigned to history. But with... -
The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin
RRP: £12.99£9.09At the turn of the century, the Russian economy was growing by about 10% annually and its population had reached 150 million. By 1920 the country was in desperate financial straits and more than 20 million Russians had died. And by 1950, a third of the... -
Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East by Martin Sixsmith
RRP: £14.99£10.95Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... -
Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia by Dominic Lieven
RRP: £12.99£9.09TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2016 'Magisterial... reveals how much is at stake for world order in Ukraine and Syria.' Rachel Polonsky'As much as anything, World War I... -
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel lives by Alan Bullock
RRP: £25.00£17.43Alan Bullock's bestselling and monumental masterpiece, now in a revised Second Edition 'It is practically unprecedented to take two such monsters as Hitler and Stalin, who never met, and interweave their lives chronologically, chapter by... -
Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin
RRP: £19.99£14.68SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL AND THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022'A terrific read ... McMeekin is a superb writer' David Aaronovitch, The Times 'Gripping, authoritative, accessible and always bracingly revisionist' Simon... -
Tannenberg 1914: Destruction of the Russian Second Army by Michael McNally
RRP: £16.99£12.28Explore the Eastern Front battle that resulted in one of the greatest defeats of World War I, in which an entire Russian army was annihilated by German arms. Tannenberg is a major battle that deserves a fully illustrated treatment all of its own, and... -
Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital by Katherine Zubovich
RRP: £40.00£31.93An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraperIn the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project. As the steel girders of the monumental towers went up, the centuries-old... -
The Modern Russian Army 1992-2016 by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £14.99£11.75A full and authoritative illustrated history of Russia's army since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, including Air Assault and Navy ground forces. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's army has undergone a turbulent transformation,... -
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
RRP: £11.99£8.43In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned,... -
Barbarossa: The Russian German Conflict by Alan Clark
RRP: £12.99£9.00The classic account of the war on the Eastern Front between the Russians and the Germans - the greatest clash of arms the world has ever seen.Carefully researched and beautifully written, this book is a classic of military history. Alan Clark vividly...