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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
Slavomir Rawicz
The Lyons Press
The Lyons Press
Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was sent to the Siberian Gulag along with other captive Poles, Finns, Ukranians, Czechs, Greeks, and even a few English, French,...
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Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia
Marshall I. Goldman
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
In the aftermath of the financial collapse of August 1998, it looked as if Russia's day as a superpower had come and gone. That it should recover and reassert itself after less than a decade is nothing short of an economic and political miracle. ...
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The Cold War: A New History
John Lewis Gaddis
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
The “dean of Cold War historians” ( The New York Times ) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major...
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Robert F. Kennedy
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
The unique, gripping account of the perilous showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people...
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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
Peter Hopkirk
Kodansha International
Kodansha International
In a phrase coined by Captain Arthur Connolly of the East India Company before he was beheaded in Bokhara for spying in 1842, a "Great Game" was played between Tsarist Russia and Victorian England for supremacy in Central Asia. At stake was the...
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The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West
Edward Lucas
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan
In late 1999 when Vladimir Putin was named Prime Minister, Russia was a budding democracy. Multiple parties campaigned for seats in the Duma, the nation’s parliament. The media criticized the government freely. Eight years later as Putin...
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Terror at Beslan: A Russian Tragedy with Lessons for America's Schools
John Giduck
Archangel Group
Archangel Group
The complete and accurate story of the Beslan School Siege that occurred in Russia on September 1, 2004. This book tells the untold story about the victims, the soldiers who were there and the history of the events leading up to the tragic incident....
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Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's Cross
Albrecht Wacker
Pen and Sword
Pen and Sword
Josef "Sepp" Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honoured with the award of the Knight's Cross. An Austrian conscript, after qualifying as a machine gunner he was...
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