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Access to History: China 1839-1997 Michael Lynch 9781471839184
£25.61Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and... -
The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in the World by Christopher Andrew
RRP: £20.00£14.29The second sensational volume of 'One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years' (The Times)When Vasili Mitrokhin revealed his archive of Russian intelligence material to the world it caused an international sensation. The Mitrokhin Archive II... -
The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman 9781529414752
RRP: £12.99£8.83One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate and Stalingrad."A significant, valuable addition to Grossman's small but powerful body of work" WILLIAM BOYD"A remarkable novel that illuminates the terrible realities of Barbarossa and... -
Putin Takes Crimea 2014: Grey-zone warfare opens the Russia-Ukraine conflict by Mark Galeotti 9781472853844
RRP: £15.99£11.79An authoritative analysis of how Putin's Russia conquered the Crimea in 2014 using 'grey zone' warfare techniques, blending operations by anonymous special forces with cyber, sabotage, and propaganda. Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 was... -
Soviet Tank Units 1939-45: The Essential Tank Identification Guide by David Porter
RRP: £19.99£14.26Soviet 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,... -
Ukraine Over the Edge: Russia, the West and the ""New Cold War by Gordon M. Hahn 9781476669014
RRP: £28.99£24.38The Ukrainian drama, which burst onto the headlines in autumn 2013, was one long and complex in its making. In contrast to other studies of the Ukrainian conflict, the present study examines in detail its historical background and complex causality-from... -
To Save An Army: The Stalingrad Airlift by Robert Forsyth
RRP: £25.00£18.30Using the diaries of Luftwaffe commanders, rare contemporary photographs and other previously unpublished sources, Robert Forsyth analyzes the human, strategic, tactical and technical elements of one of the most dramatic operations arranged by the... -
Former People: The Destruction of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith
£9.50Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. Historian Douglas Smith's Former... -
Access to History: Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919-63 for OCR Second Edition Geoff Layton 9781471839153
£26.01Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and... -
Invasion: Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival Luke Harding 9781783352821
RRP: £20.00£13.46A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGThe first book of reportage from the front line of the Ukraine war. This is a powerful, moving first draft of history written by the award-winning Guardian journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling... -
The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin
RRP: £12.99£9.34At 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... -
Mr Jones: The Man Who Kew Too Much: The Life and Death of Gareth Jones by Martin Shipton
RRP: £19.99£16.82Murdered in Mongolia in 1935 on the orders of Stalin, the Welsh investigative journalist Gareth Jones is a national hero in Ukraine for reporting the truth about the Holodomor (the Soviet Union's politically-driven famine that killed millions) and is... -
Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: £18.99£14.01A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard'The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of... -
Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine by Timothy Snyder 9780300125993
£26.32The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyiv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him to different roles-intelligence operative, powerful statesman, underground activist, lifelong... -
To Break Russia's Chains: Boris Savinkov and his Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks by Vladimir Alexandrov
RRP: £22.00£14.45A brilliant examination of the enigmatic Russian revolutionary about whom Winston Churchill said "few men tried more, gave more, dared more and suffered more for the Russian people," and who remains a legendary and controversial figure in his homeland... -
In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois
RRP: £12.99£9.34How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out-In Broad DaylightBased on a decade of work on the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois and his Yahad-In Unum team, which has culminated in interviews with more than 5,700 neighbors to... -
The Russian Concubine: 'Wonderful . . . hugely ambitious and atmospheric' Kate Mosse by Kate Furnivall 9780751540420
RRP: £10.99£6.67Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Blowing up Russia: The Book that Got Litvinenko Assassinated by Alexander Litvinenko
RRP: £10.99£9.18Updated edition of the book that got former FSB Colonel Alexander Litvinenko killed according to MI6. It unveils the first-ever fake news campaign that the FSB created to have former FSB head Vladimir Putin elected as President of Russia.About the... -
The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West by Christopher Andrew
RRP: £20.00£14.69'One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years' The TimesFor years KGB operative Vasili Mitrokhin risked his life hiding top-secret material from Russian secret service archives beneath his family dacha. When he was exfiltrated to the West he... -
Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: £9.99£7.32Haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - A new translation of Zinky Boys based on the revised text - From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands... -
The Making of Holy Russia: The Orthodox Church and Russian Nationalism Before the Revolution by John Strickland 9781942699279
RRP: £28.99£23.38This book is a critical study of the interaction between Russian Church and society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. At a time of rising nationalist movement throughout Europe, Orthodox patriots advocated for the place of the Church as... -
Russian Aircraft of World War II by Edward Ward
RRP: £17.99£12.58Organised 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... -
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
RRP: £18.99£14.50Americans call the Second World War "the Good War." But before it even began, America's ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens-and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and... -
History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
RRP: £20.00£15.29'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. JamesRegarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in... -
The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
RRP: £14.99£11.30'A timely and important book . . . he brings to it rare clarity and common sense. His book is a fast-paced account of the last sixteen months of the tsar's life; brief, sharp, but laced with well-judged feeling for the dramas of the time.' Catherine... -
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
RRP: £14.99£11.51The fascinating true story behind HBO's Catherine the Great starring Dame Helen Mirren as Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination. For thirty-four years, the... -
Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess Andrew Lownie 9781473627383
RRP: £10.99£7.61Winner of the St Ermin's Intelligence Book of the Year Award. 'One of the great biographies of 2015.' The TimesFully updated edition including recently released information. A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography of the Year. Mail on... -
Stalin Waiting For ... The Truth! by Grover Furr 9780578445533
RRP: £25.00£21.05Apologies 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 *... -
The Russian Revolution: A Beginner's Guide by Abraham Ascher
RRP: £9.99£7.771917: the year a series of rebellions toppled three centuries of autocratic rule and placed a group of political radicals in charge of a world power. Here, suddenly, was the first modern socialist state, "a kingdom more bright that any heaven had to... -
The Border - A Journey Around Russia: SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 Erika Fatland 9780857057785
RRP: £14.99£10.05"Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the Nordics' most exciting new travel writers" National Geographic**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORDS DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**"A hauntingly lyrical meditation to the contingencies of history" Wall... -
After the Romanovs: the extraordinary lives of Russian exiles in Paris between the wars by Helen Rappaport 9781914484766
RRP: £10.99£7.54A TLS AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR The scintillating story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought refuge in interwar Paris. The fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917 forced thousands of Russians to flee their homeland with... -
Catherine the Great and Potemkin: Power, Love and the Russian Empire Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474614832
RRP: £14.99£10.05'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' EconomistIt was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual... -
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, 1917 by Helen Rappaport
RRP: £10.99£7.99SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TELEGRAPH AND EVENING STANDARD'[The] centenary will prompt a raft of books on the Russian Revolution. They will be hard pushed to better this highly original, exhaustively researched and superbly constructed account... -
The Ruble: A Political History by Ekaterina Pravilova
RRP: £30.99£26.77A groundbreaking history of Russia, from empire to the Soviet era, viewed through the lens of its money. Money seems passive, a silent witness to the deeds and misdeeds of its holders, but through its history intimate dramas and grand historical... -
In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2 by Sauer, Arno 9781526797704
RRP: £14.99£11.11On 22 June 1941, German forces launched Operation Barbarossa -Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. Instead of the swift knock-out blow that the Germans had anticipated, the war against the Soviets ground on relentlessly for almost four years. It was... -
Armies in Southern Russia 1918-19 by Phoebus Athanassiou
RRP: £11.99£8.66An important aspect of the Russian Civil War were the several Allied expeditions immediately following World War I in support of the disunited Russian 'White' armies resisting the Bolshevik Revolution. Although they ended in failure, these ventures were... -
Rasputin: The Biography by Douglas Smith
RRP: £16.99£12.66Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize.Drawing on major new sources hitherto unexamined by western historians, Douglas Smith's Rasputin is the definitive biography of this extraordinary figure for a generation.Nearly a century after his murder,... -
Stalingrad Airlift 1942–43: The Luftwaffe's broken promise to Sixth Army by William E. Hiestand
RRP: £16.99£12.47The 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... -
Soviet Naval Infantry 1917–91 by David Greentree
RRP: £14.99£11.11Drawing upon Soviet sources, this book assesses the evolving organization, uniforms, insignia, weaponry and personal equipment of Soviet naval infantry units from 1917 to 1991. Featuring eight plates of specially commissioned artwork alongside... -
1989 the Berlin Wall: My Part in Its Downfall Peter Millar 9781910050262
RRP: £12.99£8.83Follow Peter Millar on a journey in the heart of Cold War Europe, from the carousing bars of 1970s Fleet Street to the East Berlin corner pub with its eclectic cast of characters who embodied the reality of living on the wrong side of the wall.About the...