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Cover of Revolutionary Days: Recollections of Romanoffs and Bolsheviki 1914-1917
by Julia Cantacuzène
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016

Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzène Spiransky, Princess Cantacuzène, Countess Spiransky (6 June 1876 – 4 October 1975), was an American author and historian. She was the eldest child of Frederick Dent Grant and his wife Ida Marie Honoré, and the first grandchild of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President...
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Gulag Boss

A Soviet Memoir

by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky, Deborah Kaple
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010

The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. In this riveting...
Cover of Rockets and People: Volume IV: The Moon Race, the N-1 Moon Rocket, Salyut Space Stations, Soyuz 11 Tragedy, Energiya-Buran Space Shuttle, plus Bonus 1967 American Report on Soviet Program
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012

In this fourth and final volume of the series, Boris Chertok concludes his monumental trek through a nearly 100-year life, providing fascinating insights into the Soviet moon landing program and the four failed launches of its giant N-1 moon rocket. He also provides new details about the Soyuz 11...
Cover of Rockets and People, Volume II: Creating a Rocket Industry - Memoirs of Russian Space Pioneer Boris Chertok, Sputnik, Moon, Mars, Launch Pad Disasters, ICBMs (NASA SP-2005-4110)
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011

Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoirs of Academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian,...
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by George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011

It was one of the pivotal times of the twentieth century--during George Bush's presidency, an extraordinary series of international events took place that materially changed the face of the world. Now, former President Bush and his national security advisor, Brent Scowcroft, tell the story of those...
Cover of Russian Aces of World War 1
by Victor Kulikov
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013

Although the Russian Imperial Army Air Service consisted of no more than four BAGs (Boevaya Aviatsionniy Gruppa – battle aviation groups), each controlling three or four smaller AOIs (Aviatsionniy Otryad Istrebitelei – fighter aviation detachments) equipped with a variety of aircraft types, its...
Cover of The Resurrection of the Romanovs

The Resurrection of the Romanovs

Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the World's Greatest Royal Mystery

by Greg King, Penny Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010

The truth of the enduring mystery of Anastasia's fate-and the life of her most convincing impostor The passage of more than ninety years and the publication of hundreds of books in dozens of languages has not extinguished an enduring interest in the mysteries surrounding the 1918 execution of the...
Cover of The A to Z of the Russo-Japanese War
by Rotem Kowner
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009

Every war leaves an imprint in history, but few have had such a pervasive impact in so many respects as the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Politically, it fatally weakened the Russian Empire while allowing Japan to follow more dangerous paths. Diplomatically, it shook the power balance in Europe...
Cover of Twelve Months with the Bashi-Bazouks
by Edward Money
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017

A fascinating account of the Crimean War by a British officer who served with the Bashi-Bazouks during the Crimean War.
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The Defense of Moscow 1941

The Northern Flank

by Jack Radey, Charles Sharp
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013

The little-known story of the Battle of Kalinin on the eastern front, and how it shaped the course of WWII—based on archival records from both sides.   There was only one point in the Second World War when Nazi Germany had a chance of winning. That point was October 1941, when most of the Red Army’s...
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Vitebsk

The Fight and Destruction of Third Panzer Army

by Otto Heidkämper
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017

The city of Vitebsk in Belarus was of strategic importance during the fighting on the Eastern Front, as it controlled the route to Minsk. A salient in the German lines, Vitebsk had been declared a Festerplatz—a fortress town—meaning that it must be held at all costs. A task handed to 3rd Panzer...
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Siberia

A Cultural History

by Anthony Haywood
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012

Before Russians crossed the Urals Mountains in the sixteenth century to settle their ‘colony’ in North Asia, they heard rumours about bountiful fur, of bizarre people without eyes who ate by shrugging their shoulders and of a land where trees exploded from cold. This region of frozen tundra, endless...
Cover of Bolt Action: Armies of the Soviet Union
by Andy Chambers, Warlord Games
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013

This book provides Bolt Action players with all of the information they need to field the military forces of the Soviet Union. From the bitter urban warfare of Stalingrad, through the Winter War against Finland and the final drive to Berlin, the detailed army lists provided in this supplement allow players to construct Soviet armies for any theatre and any year of the war.
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Uncivil Society

1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment

by Stephen Kotkin, Jan Gross
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009

Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection,...
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