War with Russia

Reducere. K. B. E. E. Eimeleus was ahead of his time with his advocacy of ski training in the Russian armed forces. Employing terminology never before used i...

Reducere. On July 17th 1939, Eileen Alexander, a bright young woman recently graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, begins a brilliant correspondence with...

Drew is an army brat, a hotshot athlete poised to be his high school's star pitcher, when he has to move for the sixth time in fifteen years--this ...

Reducere. When a devastating famine descended on Bolshevik Russia in 1921, the United States responded with a massive two-year relief mission that battled st...

DescriptionThis fully illustrated study tells the story the fighting men of the Russo-Japanese War and how these two empires clashed, heralding a n...

Reducere. Praise for The Rescue ""Steven Trent Smith grapples boldly with several big subjects: the Japanese occupation of the Philippines; the capture of Ja...

In this touching account, veteran New York Times reporter Joseph Berger describes how his own family of Polish Jews -- with one son born at the clo...

Reducere. Franklin Roosevelt is the assistant secretary of defense. Thomas Dewey is running for president with a blunt-speaking Missourian named Harry Truman...

'Ranks as a towering work of historical research and writing' - Nigel Jones, BBC History Magazine In the second volume of his acclaimed new history...

DescriptionThis book examines the rise of great power competition in space, including the relevant and practical space strategies for China, Russia...

Over the years, various allegations have been made against the Nachtigall Battalion Wehrmacht for it's supposed collaboration with the Nazis during...

Reducere. During the First World War, a large group of German settlers in Volhynia and surrounding areas of western Russia became early victims of the 20th c...

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, with adaptations in film, radio, t...

Description"Josh Campbell's book offers extraordinary and entertaining stories at the center of the Trump storm. With experience, humanity, and hum...

Reducere. Failed Crusade is a deeply informed and passionate call for a fundamentally different American-Russian relationship in the post-Yeltsin era. Author...

DescriptionA certain unlikely hero...As battles rage around the world, three boys continue to dash through the fires of Russia. Takitsubo is still ...

Reducere. The final volume in Richard Rhodes's prizewinning history of nuclear weapons offers the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in th...

Reducere. DescriptionA surprise attack launched from the International Space Station will result in 95% of the urban and suburban U.S. population dying withi...

Reducere. Currently being adapted to film starring Oscar-winner Judi Dench and actress Sophie Cookson Inspired by the true story of Melita Norwood, a woman u...

Reducere. Nowhere in the world was the sport of biathlon, a combination of cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship, taken more seriously than in the Sovi...

From the onset of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 until the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Britain enjoyed an ambiguous re...

Part of the acclaimed "Special Campaign" series of works intended for serious professional students of military history, each volume is intersperse...

Reducere. The family that shaped Europe's ruling classes in the twentieth century.Although rarely documented as the warmest of monarchs and often criticised ...

From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.War a...

Contributor(s): Author: Alex BerensonCIA agent John Wells refuses to let a privileged businessman walk away from a crime in this novel of modern su...

Reducere. Description1989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on...

Reducere. DescriptionGrigori RasputinRasputin began life as a peasant in the poorest reaches of Siberia and ended his life as the virtual second-in-command o...

Reducere. Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878-1918) was born the youngest son of Tsar Alexander III, ruler of the mightiest empire on earth. Upo...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Locked in a balance of power since the 1815 Congress of Vienna...

Reducere. Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878-1918) was born the youngest son of Tsar Alexander III, ruler of the mightiest empire on earth. Upo...

Reducere. A deadly legacy of the Cold War . . .A mysterious Nazi source. A desperate escape bid through northern Russia. And life-threatening secrets being l...

In 1941, military operations were conducted by large formations along the northern coast of Scandinavia - for the first time in history of warfare....

Reducere. This collective work analyzes the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, providing a coherent picture of Ukraine and Eastern Europe in the period 2013-2020. ...

Reducere. DescriptionMussolini was one of the tyrant-killers of the Axis powers who scarred Europe during World War II, but we can't properly understand him ...

Pilar Rivera is a beautiful young woman who emerged from the Cuban Revolution as one of the elite assassins Fidel Castro used to stay in power. Pil...

Reducere. "On All Fronts takes the reader on a riveting journey of storytelling. . . From Russia to China to Syria, [she] navigate[s] the most intense of hum...

Reducere. Hailed as one of the greatest novels of all time and a classic of world literature, War and Peace unfolds in the early nineteenth century during th...

Reducere. General Heinz Guderian's revolutionary strategic vision and his skill in armored combat brough Germany its initial victories during World War II. C...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Saraiya FaroqhiAuthor: Suraiya FaroqhiIn a concise and colorful style, Suraiya Faroqhi lays out the history of one of the m...

Reducere. The question at the heart of The Cousins' Wars is this: How did Anglo-America evolve over a mere three hundred years from a small Tudor kingdom int...

Bauhaus Imaginista marks the centennial anniversary of this fascinating and popular school of art, which championed the idea of artists working tog...

DescriptionWhen a Russian coup elevates a ruthless new leader-Vera Koslova, the first female president of the Russian Federation- to power, the mil...

DescriptionWritten from the perspective of an insider of the most prominent events in the Middle East over the last fifty years, this book examines...

Starvation, constant moves, fighting against a seemingly unbeatable enemy: this was the life that Stan and Galina Shkurinsky experienced while comi...

Written from the perspective of an insider of the most prominent events in the Middle East over the last fifty years, this book examines Egypt's di...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags, the thrilling unknown story of America's mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria's chemi...

Reducere. A frog finds a beautiful flower and picks it for himself. When a mouse sees him with it, his jealousy overcomes him, and he swipes it. Frog's frien...

DescriptionIn The Odyssey of an Apple Thief, Moishe Rozenbaumas (1922-2016) recounts his fascinating life, from his Lithuanian boyhood, to the frau...

Reducere. DescriptionReluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who...

Reducere. From Syria and Iraq to Ukraine, from AfPak to Libya, from Iran to Russia, and from the Persian Gulf to China, foreign correspondent Pepe Escobar, a...

Reducere. Since the current Ukrainian crisis began in February 2014, the reemergence of a belligerent Russia forced NATO members, along with several countrie...

Reducere. A "stinging indictment" of US foreign policy and covert operations in the Middle East from a former military attach and CIA operative (The Christia...

Reducere. Renowned scientist John Sinclair and his old school friend Richard, a celebrated composer, are enjoying a climbing expedition in the Scottish Highl...

fire / and water surging on the screen - / since children, metros, planets, beds, and lovers are / so lightly swept away - I must not even breathe....

Reducere. The Death of East Prussia describes the immense collateral damage inflicted on East Prussia resulting from Hitler's war of annihilation in Poland a...

The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War. This volume is the first comprehe...

From Syria and Iraq to Ukraine, from AfPak to Libya, from Iran to Russia, and from the Persian Gulf to China, foreign correspondent Pepe Escobar, a...

William Somerset Maugham, CH (25 January 1874 - 16 December 1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was an English playwright, novelist, and sh...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the invasion and occupation written by Japanese and Chinese officers and civilians *Includes online resour...

Reducere. Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower-a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. ...

Reducere. In an attempt to soothe growing Cold War tensions between America and Russia, Premier Nikita Khrushchev visits the US to see all that his "enemy" h...

Reducere. Brodsky's poetic career in the West was launched when Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems was published in 1973. Its translator was a scholar and war he...

In 1905, Japan and Russia were at war. With the Russian Far East Fleet destroyed, the Czar decided to send his Baltic Fleet half way around the wor...

Reducere. Following Napoleon's defeat and exile in 1814, the future of the European continent hung in the balance. Eager to negotiate a lasting, workable pea...

Reducere. Sigrid Kendall, née Baroness Rüdt von Collenberg, was born in 1930 into the rarefied world of Central European aristocracy with all that title and ...

Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature...

DescriptionIn December 1943 with the rising realization that the Allies are planning to invade Fortress Europe, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is assig...

Between 1935 and 1938 the celebrated photographer Roman Vishniac explored the cities and villages of Eastern Europe, capturing life in the Jewish s...

Reducere. #1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn "has never been better" (The Providence Journal) in this high-octane thriller following Mitch Rapp...

Reducere. A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the ...