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  • A Bearskin's Crimea

    Colonel Henry Percy VC & His Brother Officers

    by Algernon Percy ...
    Using much previously untapped source material A Bearskins Crimea is a blow-by-blow account of the Grenadier Guards experiences in the Crimean War. The principal character, The Honourable Henry Percy, a member of the Northumberland family, was present at all the major battles of that appalling conflict: The Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman and the Seige of Sebastopol.Percy was no ordinary soldier: not ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Crimean War

    A History

    by Orlando Figes ...
    From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" (Financial Times) and a Wolfson History Prize winner, comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age.The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale—these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. Less well-known is that this savage war (1853-1856) killed almost a million soldiers and countless civilians ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Sword and the Shield

    The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB

    by Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin ...
    **Based on astonishing KGB documents, this essential exposé uncovers the shadowy operations of the Soviet Union’s top intelligence organization.“The Sword and the Shield will stand as an indispensable reference work on Soviet espionage for years to come.”** ―Washington PostBased on an unprecedented, top-secret archive described by the FBI as “the most complete and extensive intelligence ever ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • To the Edge of the World

    The Story of the Trans-Siberian Express, the World's Greatest Railroad

    by Christian Wolmar ...
    To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travel -- full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, and cultural events, and almost inconceivable feats of engineering. Christian Wolmar passionately recounts the improbable origins of the Trans-Siberian railroad, the vital artery for Russian expansion that spans almost 6,000 miles and seven time zones ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Hearts Grown Brutal

    Sagas of Sarajevo

    by Roger Cohen ...
    In this brilliant book, Roger Cohen of The New York Times weaves together the history of Yugoslavia and the story of the Bosnian War of 1992 to 1995, as experienced by four families.“I have tried to treat the story of Yugoslavia, which lived for seventy-three years, as a human one,” Cohen writes in this masterly book, which, like Thomas L. Friedman’s From Beirut to Jerusalem and David Remnick’s ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Cold War

    A World History

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    A “big, serious, and thoroughly intelligent” (New York Review of Books) history of the Cold WarWe think of the Cold War as a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. But in The Cold War, award-winning historian Odd Arne Westad argues that the war must be understood as a global confrontation, with roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Russian Security and Paramilitary Forces since 1991

    by Mark Galeotti ...
    Series Book 197 - Elite
    A detailed illustrated study of Putin's shadowy security and paramilitary armed forces.While the size of Russia's regular forces has shrunk recently, its security and paramilitary elements have become increasingly powerful. Under the Putin regime they have proliferated and importantly seem set to remain Russia's most active armed agencies for the immediate future.In parallel, within the murky ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The War In The Crimea [Illustrated Edition]

    by Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Bruce Hamley KCB KCMG ...
    The finest eye-witness history of the Crimean War. Lauded at the time as the best history of the bloody and badly-led campaign, this edition has been richly illustrated with over two hundred and sixty maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Crimean War]General Sir Edward Hamley, K.C.B., initially served as an aide de camp to Sir Richard Dacres during the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medieval Russian Fortresses AD 862–1480

    by Konstantin S Nossov ...
    Series Book 61 - Fortress
    A history of the key fortresses that dominated the landscape of medieval Russia from its legendary foundations in the 9th century to its conquest by the Mongols and the eventual rise to power of the principality of Muscovy.According to Russian legend, in the year AD 862 the Slav tribes of what is now European Russia invited a number of Scandinavian princes to rule over them. However, on the death ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Warlords

    Strong-arm Brokers in Weak States

    by Kimberly Marten ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Warlords are individuals who control small territories within weak states, using a combination of force and patronage. In this book, Kimberly Marten shows why and how warlords undermine state sovereignty. Unlike the feudal lords of a previous era, warlords today are not state-builders. Instead they collude with cost-conscious, corrupt, or frightened state officials to flout and undermine state ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Real War Horses

    The Experience of the British Cavalry 1814 - 1914

    by Anthony Dawson ...
    Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There are detailed studies of campaigns and battles and general accounts of the experiences of the soldiers. But this book by Anthony Dawson is the first to concentrate in depth, in graphic detail, on the experiences of the British cavalry during a century ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War

    Edited by Rotem Kowner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    The Russo-Japanese War was the major conflict of the earliest decade of the twentieth century. The struggle for mastery in northeast Asia, specifically for control of Korea, was watched at the time very closely by observers from many other countries keen to draw lessons about the conduct of war in the modern industrial age. The defeat of a traditional European power by a non-white, non-western ... Read more

    $77.99 USD