Russia category: 2582 books
Hearts Grown Brutal
Sagas of Sarajevo
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
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...
by Charles L. Mee Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
At the July 1991 meeting of the so-called G7, President George H. W. Bush of the United States and leaders of the other industrial nations were joined by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, of what was then still the Soviet Union, for his last hurrah. He was seeking direct foreign aid to shore up his rapidly...
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes...
A Brotherhood of Spies
The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of disaster
On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between...
The Chernobyl Disaster
The Nuclear Catastrophe and its Devastating Effects
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Chernobyl disaster in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Chernobyl disaster. When a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in April 1986, nobody could have known...
The World War II Chronicles
The Fall of Japan and Enemy at the Gates
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A “virtually faultless” account of the final weeks of World War II in the Pacific and the definitive history of the battle for Stalingrad together in one volume (The New York Times Book Review).
Author William Craig traveled to three different continents, reviewed thousands of documents,...
by Mark Healy
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
A clear, concise account of those dramatic days in 1943, supported by a timeline of events and orders of battle, and illustrated with more than 50 photographsIn July 1943, Hitler launched Operation Zitadelle, the last German offensive on the Eastern Front. It was an attempt to shorten the German...
Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1943-1945
Red Steamroller
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehmacht’s panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on the Eastern Front. The tide of the war had turned. Their combined arms technique, which had swept Soviet forces before it during 1941 and 1942, had lost its edge. Thereafter...
Where the Iron Crosses Grow
The Crimea 1941–44
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
The Crimea has been the scene of conflict throughout its history. First occupied by the Russians in the 18th century it was the scene of the Crimean War, and was drawn into the Russian Civil War, as well as World War II. Today it remains a much disputed region with the Crimea at the center of ongoing...
Mayday
Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
The “definitive” book on the U-2 episode and its disastrous impact on the future of the Cold War (Kirkus Reviews).
On May Day 1960, Soviet forces downed a CIA spy plane flown deep into Soviet territory by Francis Gary Powers two weeks before a crucial summit. This forced President Dwight...
Chekhov's Letters
Biography, Context, Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial—though until now neglected—epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered...
Stalin and His Hangmen
The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union during the three decades of Stalin’s dictatorship, were the result of a tight network of trusted henchmen (and women), spies, psychopaths, and thugs....
The House of Government
A Saga of the Russian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction
The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition...
by Joshua Rubenstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Joshua Rubenstein’s riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin’s murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower with armed force, and was also broadening a vicious campaign against...