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Vladimir Putin: The World's Most Dangerous Man? by James Greensmith 9781399043120
RRP: £20.00£14.29Following the celebrations of the Millennium and our entry into the 21st century, it was to be hoped that the days when a brutal dictator could bring mindless death and destruction to another country, and even to his own people, were over, and that the... -
From Defeat to Victory: The Eastern Front, Summer 1944 Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations, Volume 2 by Charles J. Dick
£66.09By the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point. Both the western Allies and the Soviets possessed the initiative and forces capable of mounting strategic offensives against the German enemy. Writing a study of operations on first... -
The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Barenberg 9780197548226
RRP: £8.99£6.45A vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the twentieth century, combining the functions of a standard... -
Churchill's Arctic Convoys: Strength Triumphs Over Adversity by Smith, William 9781399072298
RRP: £25.00£17.62The threat of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's surprise invasion of Russia in June 1941, succeeding prompted Churchill to decide to send vital military supplies to Britain's new ally. The early sailings to Northern Russia via the Arctic Ocean between... -
Fighting in Hell: The German Ordeal on the Eastern Front by Peter G. Tsouras 9780804116985
RRP: £7.99£6.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804116985Author Peter G. TsourasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ivy Books,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 172mm... -
The Russian Origins of the First World War by Sean McMeekin
RRP: £20.95£17.28The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit. Now, in a major... -
The Soviet Sixties by Robert Hornsby 9780300250527
RRP: £25.00£20.92The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. The... -
CCEA AS-level History Student Guide: Russia (1914-1941) by Fin Lappin
£12.13Build, reinforce and assess students' knowledge throughout their course; tailored to the 2016 CCEA specification and brought to you by the leading History publisher, this study and revision guide combines clear content coverage with practice questions... -
The Caucasus 1942-43: Kleist's race for oil by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £16.99£12.28Much has been written of the titanic clashes between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army at Stalingrad, but this volume tells the other, equally important half of the story of Fall Blau (Case Blue). Learning from their experiences during the sweeping advances... -
Hitler's Eastern Legions 1942-45 by Nigel Thomas
RRP: £14.99£11.75Between 1941-45, the Germans recruited around 175,000 men from a number of minorities in the USSR, distinguishing between 'Turkomans' (predominantly Muslims) and 'Caucasians' (predominantly Orthodox Christians). Of these, many formed rear-area auxiliary... -
Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship by Andrew Wilson
RRP: £11.99£10.15A comprehensive and revelatory history of modern Belarus-from independence to Lukashenka's contested 2020 re-election"Andrew Wilson has done all students of European politics a great service by making the history of Belarus comprehensible, and by showing... -
Kursk: The Greatest Battle by Lloyd Clark
RRP: £14.99£8.545th July 1943: the greatest land battle of all time began around the town of Kursk in Russia. This epic confrontation between German and Soviet forces was one of the most important military engagements in history and epitomised 'total war'.It was also... -
Catherine the Great: Life and Legend by John T. Alexander
RRP: £12.99£10.01Empress of the vast Russian Empire by the age of 33, Catherine's private and public life generated tremendous contemporary controversy, and she has subsequently been portrayed variously as a political genius, a despotic foreign adventuress, a tyrant, and... -
Stalingrad 1942-43 (3): Catastrophe: the Death of Sixth Army by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £16.99£12.28The final part in a three-book series on the Battle of Stalingrad, examining the Soviet encirclement, German relief efforts, and the final surrender of Paulus' 6.Armee. Having fought hard just to reach the outskirts of Stalingrad, the Axis forces... -
Nicholas II, The Last Tsar by Michael Paterson
RRP: £10.99£7.40The character of the last Tsar, Nicholas II (1868-1918) is crucial to understanding the overthrow of tsarist Russia, the most significant event in Russian history. Nicholas became Tsar at the age of 26. Though a conscientious man who was passionate in... -
Russia's War by Richard Overy
RRP: £12.99£9.09In Russia's War: 1941-1945, Richard Overy re-creates the Soviet Union's apocalyptic struggle against Nazi Germany, from the point of view both of the troops and of the ordinary civilians. In the course of human history there has probably been no more... -
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life In Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930's by Sheila Fitzpatrick
RRP: £18.99£13.61Here is a pioneeering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russain history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930's, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivisation and the first... -
Welcome to the Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity by Frederica Mathewes-Green 9781557259219
RRP: £12.99£12.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557259219Author Frederica Mathewes-GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)... -
Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest by Angela Stent 9781455533008
RRP: £19.99£16.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455533008Author Angela StentFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint FaithWordsPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 208mm... -
Russia’s Wars in Chechnya: 1994–2009 by Mark Galeotti 9781472858221
RRP: £12.99£9.09Written by a leading expert on modern Russia, this is an illustrated introduction to the bitter campaigns in Chechnya. In this new edition of his popular 2014 work, Mark Galeotti traces the progress of the wars in Chechnya, from the initial Russian... -
Conversations With Stalin by Milovan Djilas
RRP: £9.99£7.11A mesmerising, chilling close-up portrayal of Stalin from Milovan Djilas, a Communist insider - with an introduction from Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag and Iron CurtainThis extraordinarily vivid and unnerving book three meetings held with Stalin during... -
The Finnish-Soviet Winter War 1939-40: Stalin's Hollow Victory by David Murphy
RRP: £15.99£13.33This informative study explores the Soviet invasion of Finland, detailing the events of the Winter War of November 1939 to March 1940. The invasion was expected to be swift and decisive, however, the fighting qualities of the Finnish Army blunted the... -
The SVD Dragunov Rifle by Chris McNab
RRP: £15.99£11.61Featuring specially commissioned artwork and carefully chosen photographs, this study charts the SVD Dragunov rifle's development, combat use and lasting legacy, from Vietnam to Syria. Developed as a medium-range sniping rifle in the Soviet Union... -
State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilich Lenin 9781505792966
RRP: £6.00£5.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505792966Author Vladimir Ilich LeninFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Bickford Fuse by Andrey Kurkov
RRP: £10.99£7.40Catch-22 meets The Brothers Karamazov in the last great satire of the Soviet EraThe Great Patriotic War is stumbling to a close, but a new darkness has fallen over Soviet Russia. And for a disparate, disconnected clutch of wanderers - many thousands of... -
History of the Soviet Union by Geoffrey Hosking 9780006862871 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.34The author traces the evolution of the Soviet political system from its origins in 1917 to the present day. He shows how power has rarely been devolved outside a particularly tightly-knit ruling elite. Special emphasis is placed on the experience of the... -
History of the Soviet Union by Geoffrey Hosking 9780006862871
RRP: £16.99£13.49The author traces the evolution of the Soviet political system from its origins in 1917 to the present day. He shows how power has rarely been devolved outside a particularly tightly-knit ruling elite. Special emphasis is placed on the experience of the... -
Russia Abroad: A Cultural History of the Russian Emigration, 1919-1939 by Marc Raeff 9780195056839
RRP: £76.00£64.42The dramatic events of the twentieth century have often brought about the mass migration of intellectuals, professionals, writers, and artists. One of the first such migrations occurred in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, when more than a million... -
State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 9781637525401
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637525401Author Vladimir Ilyich LeninFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Affordable Classics LimitedPublisher Affordable Classics LimitedWeight(grams)... -
Stalingrad 1942-43 (2): The Fight for the City by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £15.99£11.61The second in a three-part series examining the Stalingrad campaign, one of the most decisive military operations in World War II, that set the stage for the ultimate defeat of the Third Reich. By early September 1942, 6.Armee and 4.Panzer-Armee had... -
Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £14.99£11.75Explaining and illustrating the immediate background to the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, this book investigates the Ukrainian and Russian regular and irregular forces which have been fighting in the Donbas region since 2014. In February 2014,... -
Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 by S. A. Smith 9780198734833
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Historian S. A. Smith presents... -
After Stalingrad: Seven Years as a Soviet Prisoner of War by Adelbert Toll 9781526761194
RRP: £12.99£9.09The battle for Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. Graphic first-hand accounts of the fighting have been published by soldiers of all ranks on both... -
From the Realm of a Dying Sun: Iv. Ss-Panzerkorps and the Battles for Warsaw, July-November 1944 (Volume 1) by Sr. Nash
RRP: £30.00£23.32During World War Two, the armed or Waffen-SS branch of the Third Reich's dreaded security service expanded from two divisions in 1940 to 38 divisions by the end of the war, eventually growing to a force of over 900,000 men until Germany's defeat in May... -
White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-20 by Norman Davies
RRP: £18.99£13.61Surprisingly little known, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was to change the course of twentieth-century history. In White Eagle, Red Star, Norman Davies gives a full account of the War, with its dramatic climax in August 1920 when the Red Army - sure... -
The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad by Alexis Peri 9780674248335
RRP: £20.95£15.72Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book PrizeWinner of the University of Southern California Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Reginald Zelnik Book Prize"Fascinating and perceptive."-Antony Beevor, New York Review of Books"Stand aside, Homer. I doubt whether... -
Russia's Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916-17 by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£13.56Despite the increasingly futile, bloody struggles for territory that had characterised the Eastern Front the previous year, the German and Austro-Hungarian commands held high hopes for 1916. After the success of the 1915 Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive, which... -
The Sino-Soviet Border War: Volume 2: Confrontation at Lake Zhalanashkol, August 1969 by Dimitry Ryabushkin 9781914377051
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377051Author Dimitry RyabushkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Sword Behind the Shield: A Combat History of the German Efforts to Relieve Budapest 1945 - Operation 'Konrad' I, III, III by Norbert Szamveber 9781914059247
£38.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059247Author Norbert SzamveberFormat PaperbackPage Count 518Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Into the Cosmos: Space Exploration and Soviet Culture by James T. Andrews 9780822961611
£50.46The launch of the Sputnik satellite in October 1957 changed the course of human history. In the span of a few years, Soviets sent the first animal into space, the first man, and the first woman. These events were a direct challenge to the United States...