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1946: The Making of the Modern World by Victor Sebestyen
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55With the end of the Second World War, a new world was born. The peace agreements that brought the conflict to an end implemented decisions that not only shaped the second half of the twentieth... -
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... -
Weimar Germany: Death of a Democracy by Victor Sebestyen 9781399618441
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.46'Sebestyen reminds us once again why he is one of the best historians writing today' ANDREW ROBERTS, author of Churchill: Walking with DestinyIn the years after the First World War, Berlin was - as... -
Budapest: Between East and West by Victor Sebestyen
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions and of civilizations, at the intersection of ancient trade routes... -
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire Victor Sebestyen 9780753827093
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55'A compelling and illuminating account of a great drama in the history of our times which showed once again that ordinary men and women really can change the world' Jonathan Dimbleby, MAIL ON... -
Twelve Days: Revolution 1956. How the Hungarians tried to topple their Soviet masters by Victor Sebestyen
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62The defining moment of the Cold War: 'The beginning of the end of the Soviet empire.' (Richard Nixon)The Hungarian Revolution in 1956 is a story of extraordinary bravery in a fight for freedom, and... -
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A Pelican Introduction by Orlando Figes
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $9.98What caused the Russian Revolution?Did it succeed or fail?Do we still live with its consequences?Orlando Figes teaches history at Birkbeck, University of London and is the author of many acclaimed... -
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018**WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2019*'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' Viv Groskop, Observer'A... -
Gulag Voices: An Anthology by Anne Applebaum
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.18A unique anthology of Gulag memoirs, edited and annotated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum Anne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of a dark chapter in human history and... -
Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory Chil Rajchman 9781849163996
Booksplease Price: $19.65Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His... -
Apricot Jam and Other Stories Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9781786894236
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43In this, his atmospheric final work of fiction, the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich introduces an unforgettable set of characters whose day-to-day lives are... -
Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World by Diana Preston
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.55Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama.In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt... -
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family by Helen Rappaport
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Shortlisted for the HWA Sharpe Books Non-Fiction Crown AwardA work of investigative history that will completely change the way in which we see the Romanov story. Finally, here is the truth about the... -
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service 9781509883059
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, acclaimed biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky and one of the finest historians of modern Russia, brings his deep understanding of that country to bear on the... -
Stalin's Meteorologist: One Man's Untold Story of Love, Life and Death by Olivier Rolin 9781784701758
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English.One fateful day in... -
Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 by Richard Bassett
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.31'With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis - and shows how some of the things those writers loved... -
Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny John Sweeney 9781035422289
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $16.63'Murder in the Gulag is brilliant journalistic writing: punchy, eloquent, page-turning and factual. It's a powerful reminder of what an extraordinary man Navalny was' - Roland Oliphant, TelegraphThe... -
Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia by Dominic Lieven
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91TLS 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.'... -
St Petersburg: Three Centuries of Murderous Desire by Jonathan Miles
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.11'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place. Beautiful prose renders brutality vivid' The Times - BOOK OF THE WEEK From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of... -
Young Stalin Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474614825
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Winner of the Costa Biography AwardWhat makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research,... -
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to by Bernard Wasserstein 9781802061406
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $9.93'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where... -
The Road: Short Fiction and Essays Vasily Grossman 9780857381941
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.66By the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring Kenneth Branagh. Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century. The short... -
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Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore 9780753823798 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.15Winner of the Costa Biography AwardWhat makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research,... -
Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War by Peter Conradi
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98'A must read for anyone interested in the future of Europe and the world as a whole.' Serhii Plokhy, author of The Last Empire An essential insight into Russia's relations with Ukraine, the US and... -
The Picnic: A Rush for Freedom and the Collapse of Communism by Matthew Longo 9781324086321
Booksplease Price: $13.49In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic-it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known... -
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After the Romanovs: the extraordinary lives of Russian exiles in Paris between the wars by Helen Rappaport 9781914484766 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.87A 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... -
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.34A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise "A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart."-Rodric Braithwaite,... -
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... -
The World: A Family History by Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781780225616
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.36THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFrom the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the... -
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... -
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474600873 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $3.26The 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...