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A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine
'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the author must surely possess in equal measure.' - Andrey Kurkov'A story of...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine - As heard
It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine
'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the author must surely possess in equal measure.' - Andrey Kurkov'A story of...
The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War
Moscow in the late 1970s: one by one, CIA assets are disappearing. The perils of American arrogance, mixed with bureaucratic infighting, had left the country unspeakably vulnerable to ultra-sophisticated Russian...
A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented
A Library Journal 2020 Title to Watch"Terrific - and an amazing achievement to cover so much ground in such a short and wonderfully readable book." -Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of...
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland
'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden'Tom Parfitt has re-invented travel writing for the 21st century' Oliver BulloughOn 1 September 2004, Chechen and Ingush militants took more than a thousand...
Wound
A breathtaking novel of grief, love, creativity and a young woman's queer and artistic awakening.In the days after her mother's death from breast cancer, Oksana, a young queer poet, decides...
The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner
THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir...
Wound
A breathtaking novel of grief, love, creativity and a young woman's queer and artistic awakening.In the days after her mother's death from breast cancer, Oksana, a young queer poet, decides...
My Russia: War or Peace?
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny
'Murder in the Gulag is brilliant journalistic writing: punchy, eloquent, page-turning and factual. It's a powerful reminder of what an extraordinary man Navalny was' - Roland Oliphant, TelegraphThe gripping sequel...
Last Stop on the Murder Express
'Quirky and colourful' Times Crime Club'The village life, the (mostly awful) food, the appalling hooch and, above all, the loveable eccentricity of Olga, make this a novel to treasure' A....
Last Stop on the Murder Express
'Quirky and colourful' Times Crime Club'The village life, the (mostly awful) food, the appalling hooch and, above all, the loveable eccentricity of Olga, make this a novel to treasure' A....
Nicholas & Alexandra: Nicholas & Alexandra
Nicholas & Alexandra is the internationally famous biography from Pulitzer prize-winner Robert Massie. Massie shows conclusively how the personal curse of the young heir's haemophilia, and the decisive influence it...
Conflict in the Crimea: British Redcoats on Russian Soil
The author relies to a great extent on contemporary accounts of a large number of British men and women who were unwittingly caught up in this appalling war. As well...
Central Powers of the Russian Front 1914-1918
Arranged in five sections, one for each year of the War, this superbly illustrated book covers the fluid fighting that took place on the Russian Front from August 1914. Each...
Conflict in the Crimea: British Redcoats on Russian Soil
The author relies to a great extent on contemporary accounts of a large number of British men and women who were unwittingly caught up in this appalling war. As well...
Birds of East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Russia
With 234 superb color plates, and more than 950 color maps, Birds of East Asia makes it easy to identify all of the region's species. The first single-volume field guide...
A Short History of Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty
Upon publication in 2001, Russia's First Civil War by Chester Dunning was greeted by scholars as a "historical tour de force," the first major post-Marxist reassessment of the Time of...
Wehrmacht Experience in Russia
This titanic and thoroughly comprehensive study of the German experience in Russia is the definitive single volume study of Hitler's war in the east. It incorporates the entire text of...
The Romanov Brides: A Novel Of The Last Tsarina And Her Sisters
From the author of A Most English Princess comes a rich novel about young Princess Alix of Hesse-the future Alexandra, last Empress of Imperial Russia-and her sister, Princess Ella. Their...
The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet
The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both.On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in...
Smoke and Mirrors: From the Soviet Union to Russia, the Pipedream Meets Reality
Smoke and Mirrors is about a world which is no more. There is already no such country on the map - the Soviet Union. On the site where the famous...
British Battles of the Crimean Wars 1854-1856: Despatches from the Front
Author: John GrehanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014The Crimean War was the most destructive armed conflict of the Victorian era. It...
The Witch and the Tsar
Author: Olesya Salnikova GilmoreFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 280g, 432 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023'A delicate weaving of myth and history, The Witch and the Tsar breathes new life...
Down to the Wire: The unmissable new Nick Stone thriller for 2022 from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero (Nick Stone, Book 21)
Author: Andy McNabFormat: Hardback, 162mm x 234mm, 580g, 384 pagesPublished: Transworld Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022The long awaited return of Nick Stone. The explosive new thriller featuring Nick Stone. A...
True Russia
Author: Alexander PetrosyanFormat: Hardback, 300mm x 265mm, 1360g, 172 pagesPublished: Bokforlaget Max Strom, Sweden, 2022A picture can perhaps not change the world, but it can increase our understanding of it....
Dreams of Freedom: Romanticism in Germany and Russia
Author: Staatliche Kunstsammlung DresdenFormat: Hardback, 225mm x 280mm, 1960g, 360 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Caspar David Friedrich and Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov are the most important artists of the Romantic era...
Russia of the Tsars
Author: Peter WaldronFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 210mm, 480g, 144 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011Between the 17th century and the 1917 revolution, the Russian Tsars became absolute rulers...
Eyewitness 1917: The Russian Revolution through Eyewitness Accounts
Author: Mikhail ZygarFormat: Hardback, 220mm x 290mm, 880g, 304 pagesPublished: Fontanka, United Kingdom, 2019A dramatic account of a year of two revolutions in Russia, told through extracts from contemporary diaries,...
VNIITE: Discovering Utopia - Lost Archives of Soviet Design
Author: Alexandra SankovaFormat: Hardback, 170mm x 240mm, 640g, 208 pagesPublished: Unit Editions, United Kingdom, 2023Written by the Moscow Design Museum's Alexandra Sankova and Olga Druzhinina, this book tells the previously...
My Russia: War or Peace?
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
White Fox
Author: Owen MatthewsFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 198mm, 252g, 368 pagesPublished: Transworld Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024Set during the darkest days of the Cold War, a tautly-told, nail-bitingly atmospheric historical thriller...
The Alternative in Eastern Europe
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The Climate of Treason: Five Who Spied for Russia
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The Soviet Spies
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In Anger: Culture in the Cold War 1945-60
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The March Wind
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Green Beret, Red Star
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Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
Author: Stephen Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Thrilling ... High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched' SUNDAY TIMES 'This book is a triumph' DAN SNOW 9.07 a.m., April...
The Fourth Man: The Hunt for the KGB's CIA Mole and Why the US Overlooked Putin
Author: Robert Baer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 *** 'Reads like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' -James Risen, The Intercept 'A compelling account of the ongoing search for the Fourth...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 880 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 880 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was...
Lenin the Dictator
Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in English for...
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It
Author: Mark B. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for...
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition
Author: Robert Service Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 The definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in...