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The Russian Revolution by Anthony Wood 9780582355590
£35.74A popular concise guide - one of the clearest available on the Russian Revolution.Book InformationISBN 9780582355590Author A. WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 146gDimensions(mm) 138mm * 216mm... -
Soviet Motor Gunboats of World War II: The Red Army's 'river tanks' from Stalingrad to Berlin by Przemyslaw Budzbon 9781472857217
RRP: £12.99£9.09A compelling account of the heavily armed and highly mobile Soviet river gunboats which took on the Germans during World War II. Russia's enormous river system has long been its highway and, as early as 1908, the Tsar's armies were developing armoured... -
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent by Owen Matthews
RRP: £10.99£7.77SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE PRIZE 'The most formidable spy in history' IAN FLEMING 'His work was impeccable' KIM PHILBY 'The spy to end spies' JOHN LE CARRE Born of a German father and a Russian mother, Richard Sorge moved in a world of... -
Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: £14.99£9.80'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... -
Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport 9781447227175 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their... -
Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
RRP: £14.99£11.13On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their... -
The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan by Gregory Feifer 9780061143199
£11.25The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a grueling debacle that has striking lessons for the 21st century. In "The Great Gamble", Gregory Feifer examines the conflict from the perspective of the soldiers on the ground. In gripping detail, he vividly depicts... -
A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya by Anna Politkovskaya
RRP: £17.00£14.62The recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya is grim evidence of the danger faced by journalists passionately committed to writing the truth about wars and politics. A longtime critic of the Russian government, particularly with regard to its policies in... -
Russia - Myths and Realities: The History of a Country with an Unpredictable Past by Sir Rodric Braithwaite
RRP: £16.99£14.79A TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 'Wise and thorough' The Spectator 'Brisk and readable ... very valuable' Financial Times 'He is an engaging guide ... and writes with the same flair demonstrated in his previous bestseller Afgantsy' The Sunday... -
The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Lovell
RRP: £8.99£6.45Almost twenty years after the Soviet Unions' end, what are we to make of its existence? Was it a heroic experiment, an unmitigated disaster, or a viable if flawed response to the modern world? Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union,... -
The Red Army in Austria: The Soviet Occupation, 1945–1955 by Stefan Karner 9781793626608
RRP: £30.00£26.68Based on a broad array of sources from Russian and Austrian archives, this collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the Soviet occupation of Austria from 1945 to 1955. The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including the Soviet Secret... -
Tanks in Operation Bagration 1944: The demolition of Army Group Center by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £12.99£9.09A new study of tank warfare used in the Soviet offensive of Operation Bagration, which destroyed Army Group Center. Operation Bagration, the 1944 summer campaign on the Russian Front, has been called "Hitler's Greatest Defeat." The operation... -
Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter by Gary Saul Morson 9780674971806
RRP: £31.95£25.17A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, Russian literature has posed... -
Russian Revolution, The Paper by Chris Culpin
£20.72Covering popular topics and containing sharply focused material, Longman History in Depth is ideal for AS/A Level or higher Still students of all abilities. Introduces students to each topis through a narrative supported by charts, maps, timelines,... -
Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago by Anna Pasternak
RRP: £9.99£6.64'Riveting, tragic tale' New Yorker 'Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion' Financial Times The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and... -
The Great Bear at War by Chris McNab
RRP: £30.00£22.55A History of the Red Army, Soviet Army and Russian Army in 100 Years of Conflict From the chaos of the civil war to the political manoeuvring of the Cold War, Russia's armed forces have shaped the future not only of Russia but of countless other... -
Warsaw 1920 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Battle of Warsaw in August 1920 has been described as one of the decisive battles of European history. At the start of the battle, the Red Army appeared to be on the verge of advancing through Poland into Germany to expand the Soviet revolution. Had... -
Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917-41 by John Wright
£23.02Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed for EdexcelEnable students to achieve their full potential while ensuring pace, enjoyment and motivation with this popular series from the... -
Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Tim Judah
RRP: £11.99£8.92On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians, Kosovo is central - geographically,... -
Ukraine Diaries by Andrey Kurkov
RRP: £12.99£9.09Acclaimed author Andrey Kurkov gives powerful insight into life in Kyiv following the 2013 protests and before the 2022 Russian invasion.-16 DegreesC, sunlight, silence. I drove the children to school, then went to see the revolution. I walked between... -
Velikiye Luki 1942-43: The Doomed Fortress by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £15.99£11.61Velikiye Luki had been an important Russian fortress city since the 13th century and had become an important rail-hub by the 19th century. In August 1941, the Germans occupied the city of 30,000 during Operation Barbarossa and made it a bulwark on the... -
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life by Alex Christofi 9781472964694
RRP: £20.00£14.29'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' - Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich... -
The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers 9780571222629 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.41Arthur Ransome was, from 1930 to the early 1960s, what J.K. Rowling is today: author of a series of children's books which shaped the imagination of a generation. Rooted in the heyday of the British Empire, Swallows and Amazons and its sequels described... -
The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers
RRP: £12.99£8.56Arthur Ransome was, from 1930 to the early 1960s, what J.K. Rowling is today: author of a series of children's books which shaped the imagination of a generation. Rooted in the heyday of the British Empire, Swallows and Amazons and its sequels described... -
The Curtain and the Wall: A Journey in the Shadow of the Cold War by Timothy Phillips
RRP: £20.00£13.86A landmark journey along the full length of the old Iron Curtain - from the Arctic Circle to Turkey's eastern border - tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live with its legacy. The Iron Curtain divided the continent of... -
Beslan: The Tragedy Of School No. 1 by Timothy Phillips
RRP: £9.99£6.70Tim Phillips' book tells the human story of the siege - of the terrible toll that thirst, hunger and sleeplessness took on the hostages, of the bravery of those who dealt with the terrorists, such as the elderly headmistress of the school and the doctor... -
The Baron's Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution by Willard Sunderland
RRP: £27.99£24.54Baron Roman Fedorovich von Ungern-Sternberg (1885-1921) was a Baltic German aristocrat and tsarist military officer who fought against the Bolsheviks in Eastern Siberia during the Russian Civil War. From there he established himself as the de facto... -
Black Sun by Owen Matthews
RRP: £9.99£7.75'Outstanding' SUNDAY TIMES 'A stunning debut thriller . . . utterly terrifying . . . absolutely riveting' DAILY MAIL 'Fascinating . . . fearsome' FREDERICK FORSYTH'Enthralling' FINANCIAL TIMES'Thrilling . . . compelling' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE1961... -
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£10.95On 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... -
Access to History: Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919-63 for OCR Second Edition by Geoff Layton
£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... -
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger 9781509867448
RRP: £30.00£21.35A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a... -
Memories - From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi
RRP: £12.99£8.56BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Wonderfully idiosyncratic, coolly heartfelt and memorable' William Boyd'One of the great writers of early 20th Century Russia' Simon Sebag Montefiore'A remarkable memoir . . . both potent and endearing' Erica Wagner, New... -
Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment by Han F. Vermeulen
RRP: £36.00£29.21The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology's academic origins to present a groundbreaking study... -
Stalin: The Georgian student priest who became one of the 20th century's most notorious mass murderers by Claire Shaw
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187899Author Claire ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World by Scott Reynolds Nelson
RRP: £25.00£18.68A revelatory global history shows how cheap American grain toppled the world's largest empires To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain-along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain,... -
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg 9780385544405
RRP: £27.00£26.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385544405Author Andy GreenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House Books for Young ReadersPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Way Of A Pilgrim by H. Bacovain
£9.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385468145Author Helen BacovcinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Laboratories of Terror: The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine by Lynne Viola 9780197647554
£26.21Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. When the Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR halted mass operations in repression in November 1938, large... -
SU-152/ISU-152 vs Tiger: Eastern Front 1943-45 by David Greentree
RRP: £14.99£10.95This fully illustrated volume compares two of the most iconic AFV's: the SU-152/ISU-152 and the Tiger, used on the Eastern Front during World War II. On the Eastern Front in 1943, the Tiger-equipped heavy Panzer battalions gave German armoured... -
Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin's Russia by Elizabeth Wilson
RRP: £25.00£21.32The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life "Playing with Fire is a ground-breaking work-a phenomenal biography of a towering human spirit of everlasting...