Russia
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When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
$17.95 Add to cartThe untold story of the twenty-five-year struggle to free Soviet Jews, drawing on newly released Soviet government documents as well as hundreds of oral interviews, and told from the perspective of th… [more below]
- Author: Beckerman, Gal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0547577478
- Language: English
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The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreThe Soviet Union at its height occupied one sixth of the world’s land mass, encompassed fifteen republics, and stretched across eleven different time zones. More than twice the size of the United Stat… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Lovell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199238480
- Language: English
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Mosin-Nagant M1891: Facts and Circumstance in the History and Development of the Mosin-Nagant Rifle
$10.99 Add to cartKNOW YOUR RIFLE!
This essential book is perfect for someone who has always wanted to own a Mosin-Nagan, or, for that matter, a shooter who already does.
Copiously illustrated, its words and pictures tel
- Author: Faust, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0934523495
- Language: English
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Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident
$27.95 Add to cartThe true story that inspired the feature film Bridge of Spies
In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what- Author: Powers, Francis Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574884220
- Language: English
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Ties That Bind
$30.65 Add to cartThe author and his father and brother attempt the world’s longest train ride, to see if they can stay together as a family unit in a tight train compartment for nine days. Not only did they survive wi
- Author: Antonson, Brent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1774430703
- Language: English
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Marshal of Victory: The WWII Memoirs of Soviet General Georgy Zhukov, 1941-1945
$24.95 Add to cartThe second volume of Georgy Zhukov’s memoirs begins with the desperate defense of Moscow in the late fall and winter of 1941 and continues through more than three years of war. – Covers Stalingrad, Le… [more below]
- Series: Stackpole Military History #VOLU
- Author: Zhukov, Georgy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 081171554X
- Language: English
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Stories I Stole from Georgia
$18.00 Add to cartFed up with working for Time magazine in London, Wendell Steavenson spent two years in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Stories I Stole captures the exuberance of a fledgling nation of local des… [more below]
- Author: Steavenson, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 277
- Publish Date: February 24 2004
- ISBN10: 080214067X
- Language: English
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The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the the Third World: Newly Revealed Secrets from the Mitrokhin Archive
$25.00 Add to cartIn 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist, snuck out of Russia carrying with him a vast cache of transcriptions of top-secret KGB intelligence files. The FBI later described his trove of docum… [more below]
- Author: Andrew, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0465003133
- Language: English
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
$27.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – An “urgently readable” (Newsweek) biography of the captivating tsar who changed Russian history–from the New York Times bestselling author of Nicholas and Alexandra, The Roman… [more below]
- Author: Massie, Robert K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: October 12 1981
- ISBN10: 0345298063
- Language: English
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Seward’s Folly: A New Look at the Alaska Purchase
$28.95 Read moreThe Alaska Purchase–denounced at the time as “Seward’s Folly” but now seen as a masterstroke–is well known in American history. But few know the rest of the story.
This book aims to correct that. L… [more below]- Author: Farrow, Lee A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1602233039
- Language: English
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A Concise History of the Baltic States
$35.00 Add to cartThe Baltic region is frequently neglected in broader histories of Europe and its international significance can be obscured by separate treatments of the various Baltic states. With this wide-ranging … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Plakans, Andrejs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 492
- Publish Date: February 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0521541557
- Language: English
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Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
$22.00 Add to cart“[An] unforgettable memoir” (Boston Globe) that provides a window into the wildly divergent nations that once comprised the Soviet Union, from a former NPR reporter
Not with a bang, but with a quiet,- Author: Sheets, Lawrence Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0307395839
- Language: English
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Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022
$35.00 Add to cartThe Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has its roots in the events of 2013-2014. Russia cynically termed the seditionist conflict in Crimea and Eastern Donbas a ‘civil war’ in order to claim non-invo… [more below]
- Author: Arel, Dominique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1009055941
- Language: English
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The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartA vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the twe… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Barenberg, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0197548229
- Language: English
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The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy’s Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat
$19.00 Add to cartThe thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow–before more American assets are rounded up and killed.
Foreword by Gen. Michael V. Hayden (Retd.), Former D- Author: Haseltine, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 125078137X
- Language: English
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Nestor Makhno–Anarchy’s Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921
$24.95 Add to cartAvailable for the first time in English, here’s the gripping story of Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno. With his usual wit and engaging style, Skirda chronicles the life of a legend and the insurgent
- Author: Skirda, Alexandre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1902593685
- Language: English
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In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust
$32.99 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
“The mass killings of Jews from 1918 to 1921 are a bridge between local pogroms and the extermination of the Holoc- Author: Veidlinger, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250812127
- Language: English
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The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
$30.00 Read more*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * One of The East Hampton Star‘s 10 Best Books of the Year*
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behind t- Author: Birmingham, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 16, 2021
- ISBN10: 1594206309
- Language: English
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Eastern Front 1945: Triumph of the Soviet Air Force
$25.00 Read moreA detailed, illustrated account of the air campaign that accompanied the Red Army’s final push towards Berlin, in which massed Soviet air power defeated the Luftwaffe’s high-tech Me 262 jets and Miste
- Series: Air Campaign #42
- Author: Hiestand, William E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1472857828
- Language: English
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The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
$22.99 Add to cartThe Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1943, during which time the city was cut off from the rest of the world, was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. In scale, the tragedy of Lening… [more below]
- Author: Salisbury, Harrison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 23 2007
- ISBN10: 0306812983
- Language: English
