Rodric Braithwaite: 3 books
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-1989
The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a warm-water port on the Persian Gulf. Afghan mujahideen upset their plans, holding on with little more than natural fighting skills, until CIA agents came...
Moscow 1941
A City and Its People at War
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
In 1941 close to one million Russian soldiers died defending Moscow from German invasion–more causalities than that of the United States and Britain during all of World War II. Many of these soldiers were in fact not soldiers at all, but instead ordinary people who took up arms to defend their city....
Armageddon and Paranoia
The Nuclear Confrontation since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Former British Ambassador to the Soviet Union and author of the definitive account of the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, Sir Rodric Braithwaite offers here a tour d'horizon of nuclear policy from the end of World War II and start of the Cold War to the present day. Armageddon and Paranoia...