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  • The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman

    by Carol Garrard, John Garrard ...
    "A definitive treatment of one of the Soviet Union's most significant writers."—The Russian ReviewVasily Grossman (1905–64), one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, served for over 1,000 days with the Red Army as a war correspondent on the Eastern front. He was present during the street-fighting at Stalingrad, and his 1944 report "The Hell of Treblinka," was the first eyewitness ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent

    Faith and Power in the New Russia

    by John Garrard, Carol Garrard ...
    Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent is the first book to fully explore the expansive and ill-understood role that Russia's ancient Christian faith has played in the fall of Soviet Communism and in the rise of Russian nationalism today. John and Carol Garrard tell the story of how the Orthodox Church's moral weight helped defeat the 1991 coup against Gorbachev launched by Communist Party hardliners. The ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Twin Cities

    Urban Communities, Borders and Relationships over Time

    Edited by John Garrard, Ekaterina Mikhailova ...
    Series series Global Urban Studies
    This dynamic international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities on administrative and international borders across the world. Drawing on contemporary and historical examples, it documents constant and changing features of twinned communities over time.The chapters explore a variety of urban formations including independent cities located side-by-side; cities that have merged ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Twin Cities across Five Continents

    Interactions and Tensions on Urban Borders

    Edited by Ekaterina Mikhailova, John Garrard ...
    Series series Global Urban Studies
    This international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities in different circumstances – from the emergent to the recently amalgamated, on 'soft' and 'hard' borders, with post-colonial heritage, in post-conflict environments and under strain.With examples from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America, North America and the Caribbean, the volume sees twin cities as ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Heads of the Local State

    Mayors, Provosts and Burgomasters since 1800

    Edited by John Garrard ...
    In recent decades there has been increasing historical interest in various aspects of local urban politics, resulting in a much better understanding of the recruitment and socio-economic characteristics of municipal leadership and the exercise of power at a local level. However, much less is known about the highly important offices and office-holders standing at the ceremonial, political and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • A Writer at War

    A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945

    by Vasily Grossman ...
    When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. Witnessing some of the most savage fighting of the war, Grossman saw ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

    A Novel

    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ...
    Translated by H. T. Willetts ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    For the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobel Prize-winning author's most accessible novelOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is an undisputed classic of contemporary literature. First published (in censored form) in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, it is the story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov as he struggles to maintain his dignity in the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Delphi Classics)

    by Bram Stoker, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 10 - Delphi Series Two
    Bram Stoker is a leading figure of gothic literature, having not only written ‘Dracula’, but also other groundbreaking horror stories, featuring Egyptian Mummies, grisly monsters and haunting encounters. This enormous eBook offers readers the unique opportunity of exploring the prolific writer’s work in a manner never before possible. This is the complete FICTIONAL works of Bram Stoker, with many ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Savage Continent

    Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

    by Keith Lowe ...
    **Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize"A superb and immensely important book."—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostThe Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years...**The end of World War II in Europe is remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, but the reality was quite different. Across Europe, landscapes ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • A Special Brand of Courage

    A Mother and Her Children’S Remarkable Escape from Nazi Germany

    by Krystyna Louw ...
    The story of an extraordinary woman who refuses to succumb to the inevitable and flees Nazi occupied Poland with two childrena journey that brought her love, betrayal and miraculously narrow escapes. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Catastrophe 1914

    Europe Goes to War

    by Max Hastings ...
    From the acclaimed military historian, a history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles—the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg—that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches.In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a conflict different from the familiar one of barbed wire, mud and futility. He traces the path to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Riddle Of The Sands

    by Erskine Childers ...
    The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers is a novel published in 1903 that belongs to military fiction or “invasion novels.” It predicts pre-First-World-War threats of German invasion of the British Isles. The pertinence of Childerss ideas and details, which have been based on his own sailing experience, has made the historical British prime minister Winston Churchill summon him up at the ... Read more

    $2.49 USD

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