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Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.94A 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... -
Invasion: Russia’s Bloody War and Ukraine’s Fight for Survival by Luke Harding 9781783352777
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98A 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... -
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Crimea by Orlando Figes 9780141013503 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $4.42Orlando Figes' Crimea is a powerful history of the Crimean War, the conflict that dominated the nineteenth century. The Crimean War one of the fiercest battles in Russia's history, killing nearly a... -
Crimea by Orlando Figes
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.71Orlando Figes' Crimea is a powerful history of the Crimean War, the conflict that dominated the nineteenth century. The Crimean War one of the fiercest battles in Russia's history, killing nearly a... -
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore 9780297852667 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $3.99The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did... -
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.93The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did... -
Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation Into Tyranny by Donald Critchlow
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.00Lenin. Mao. Castro. Mugabe. Khomeini. All sparked movements in the name of liberating their people from their oppressors-capitalists, foreign imperialists, or dictators in their own country. These... -
Lenin the Dictator Victor Sebestyen 9781474601054
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine'Richly readable ... An enthralling but appalling story' Francis Wheen, author of Karl MarxThe cold, one-dimensional figure... -
Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution Paul Le Blanc 9780745348346
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.51'Brings out the practical activism, principled politics, and revolutionary patience crucial to organizing the oppressed on a rapidly over-heating planet' - Jodi Dean 'Crackling with intellectual... -
Catherine the Great and Potemkin: Power, Love and the Russian Empire Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474614832
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55'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... -
Because the Light Will Not Forgive Me: Essays from a Poet by Shaun T. Griffin
Booksplease Price: $35.90This is a book of essays about the American West, ranging from what it means to be a poet/artist, to social justice and environmental concerns, to memory, place, and landscape. It's about looking... -
The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature Richard J. Lane 9780415470469
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $49.01The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature introduces the fiction, poetry and drama of Canada in its historical, political and cultural contexts. In this clear and structured volume,... -
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474614818
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.93Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the YearLonglisted for the Samuel Johnson PrizeThis thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme... -
Russia's War by Richard Overy
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.64In 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... -
The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination Northrop Frye 9781487002664
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.15"Any publication by Northrop Frye is an important literary event; this one is of the highest importance to Canadian literature." - Globe and Mail Originally published by Anansi in 1971,... -
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In 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... -
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature Margaret Atwood 9781844080823
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95Margaret Atwood's witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the 'Grey Owl Syndrome' of white writers going native; the... -
Prince Eddy: The King Britain Never Had by Andrew Cook
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.67Prince Albert Victor, King Edward Vll's (r 1901-10) first son and heir to the throne, and popularly known as Eddy, has virtually been airbrushed out of history. In this book, Andrew Cook, the... -
Blowing up Russia: The Book that Got Litvinenko Assassinated by Alexander Litvinenko
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.40Updated 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... -
Nikolai Sukhanov: Chronicler of the Russian Revolution by Israel Getzler 9781349429332
Booksplease Price: $144.63Sukhanov stood at the centre of the Russian revolution as a founding member and ideologist of the Petrograd Soviet and as fearless editor of the leading opposition newspaper. His seven-volume... -
NMR at Very High Field by J.B. Robert 9783642488160
Booksplease Price: $118.93In recent years several improvements have been made in the manufacturing of resistive, superconducting and hybrid mag nets. Condensed matter physicists are nowadays doing ex periments in steady... -
A Brush Full of Colour: The World of Ted Harrison by Margriet Ruurs 9781772782264
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.32The true story of how a boy's passion for learning saved him from a life in England's coal mines and led him to a career as an internationally acclaimed artist and illustrator, famed for his images... -
Reinterpreting Russia by Geoffrey Hosking 9780340731352
Booksplease Price: $41.10Russia has undergone immense changes in the 20th century. From tsarism to communism, from communism to the market economy. But to what extent does this market economy reproduce the capitalism that... -
Nikolai Sukhanov: Chronicler of the Russian Revolution by Israel Getzler 9780333970355
Booksplease Price: $144.63Sukhanov stood at the centre of the Russian revolution as a founding member and ideologist of the Petrograd Soviet and as fearless editor of the leading opposition newspaper. His seven-volume... -
What's Cooking in the Kremlin: A Modern History of Russia Through the Kitchen Door Witold Szablowski 9781837730209
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'A spicy and original romp through Russian history' ROBERT SERVICE'Poignant, comical, and in the best sense disturbing' PAUL FREEDMAN, AUTHOR OF TEN RESTAURANTS THAT CHANGED AMERICA'This wickedly... -
Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant by Amy W. Knight
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $44.31This is the first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism,... -
The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the... -
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William Wallace: Brave Heart by James A. Mackay 9781851588237 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $3.02Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas - a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. Even the date and place... -
William Wallace: Brave Heart by James A. Mackay 9781851588237
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.36Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas - a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. Even the date and place... -
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'You have to read it' Volodymyr Zelensky'Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account' Professor Sir Ian Kershaw,... -
What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa by David E. Murphy 9780300119817
Booksplease Price: $45.43"A riveting account of one of history's greatest blunders."-William L. O'Neill, The New Leader This extensively researched book illuminates many of the enigmas that have surrounded the Nazi invasion... -
The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad by Lena Mukhina
Booksplease Price: $26.60In May 1941 Lena Mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in Leningrad, worrying about her homework and whether Vova - the boy she liked - liked her. Like a good Soviet schoolgirl, she was also... -
The Fall of Tsarism: Untold Stories of the February 1917 Revolution by Semion Lyandres 9780198713487
Booksplease Price: $54.94The Fall of Tsarism contains a series of gripping, plain-spoken testimonies from some of the leading participants of the Russian Revolution of February 1917, including the future revolutionary... -
The Voices of the Dead: Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s by Hiroaki Kuromiya 9780300226782
Booksplease Price: $41.54The voices of dozens of innocent victims, silenced during Stalin's Terror and since forgotten, can yet be heard in secret police archives Swept up in the maelstrom of Stalin's Great Terror of... -
The Treacherous Path: An Insider's Account of Modern Russia by Vladimir I. Yakunin 9781785903014
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.15In 1991, Vladimir Yakunin, a Soviet diplomat and KGB officer, returned from his posting in New York to a country that no longer existed. The state that he had served for all his adult life had... -
Fast Into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail by Debbie Clarke Moderow
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.44Part adventure, part love story, part inquiry into the mystery of connection between humans and dogs, Fast into the Night is an exquisitely written memoir of a woman, her dogs, and what can happen... -
Rowing the Northwest Passage: Adventure, Fear, and Awe in a Rising Sea by Kevin Vallely 9781771641340
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Explores the very real impacts climate change is having on the North and the people who live there. Riveting adventure travel, that incorporates science, history, geography, and memoir. The author... -
Trotsky, The Passionate Revolutionary by Todd, Allan 9781399010764
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.81Although Trotsky was dramatically assassinated just over eighty years ago, he remains a controversial figure. He has had many biographers over the decades - ranging from the overly-sympathetic, to... -
The Return of Russia: From Yeltsin to Putin, the Story of a Vengeful Kremlin James Rodgers 9780300270815
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.66An incisive and engaging account of post-Soviet Russia-showing how and why the country has come into confrontation with the West The escalation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022... -
What's Cooking in the Kremlin: A Modern History of Russia Through the Kitchen Door by Witold Szablowski 9781837730193
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.94'A spicy and original romp through Russian history' ROBERT SERVICE'Poignant, comical, and in the best sense disturbing' PAUL FREEDMAN, AUTHOR OF TEN RESTAURANTS THAT CHANGED AMERICA'This wickedly...