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A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution
A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Thoroughly researched, stylish and entertaining' Financial Times'A vivid and sparkling account, full of colour and dark drama' Observer'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony...
Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag (SIGNED)
From Orlando Figes, international bestselling author of A People's Tragedy, Just Send Me Word is the moving true story of two young Russians whose love survived Stalin's Gulag. Lev and...
The Competent Authority
'Great is the Soviet Union, vast its territories, warm its entrails...' 1959. Whispers of dissidence are spreading in the U.S.S.R. Texts published in the West are circulating in samizdat, tormenting...
The Story of Russia
"This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with...
St. Petersburg: Madness, Murder, and Art on the Banks of the Neva
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From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of St Petersburg--one of the most magical, menacing, and influential cities in the world. St. Petersburg has always felt...
Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of
A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature.Mikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize...
A Killing Winter: An Inspector Akyl Borubaev Thriller (1)
'Even better than Child 44. Akyl Borubaev is a terrific creation' Anthony HorowitzWE UNCOVERED THE LAST OF THE BODIES IN THE RED HOUR BEFORE DUSK, AS THE SUN STAINED THE...
Architecture at the End of the Earth: Photographing the Russian North
Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North, is sparsely...
The Adventures of Tintin: 8 Title Paperback Boxed Set: The Official
Join Tintin, one of the most iconic characters in children's literature, in eight of his greatest adventures.Celebrating 95 years of Herge's classic comic book creation Tintin, one of the most...
The Competent Authority
'Great is the Soviet Union, vast its territories, warm its entrails...' 1959. Whispers of dissidence are spreading in the U.S.S.R. Texts published in the West are circulating in samizdat, tormenting...
Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen
Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher's salary in a nondescript building on the East Side of New York City. On a hot afternoon in...
The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War
Author: Sinclair McKayFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 352 pagesPublished: Quarto Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2017Once victory was declared, many of the individuals who had achieved the seemingly impossible at Bletchley...
Alcohol: Soviet Anti-Alcohol Posters
Author: Damon MurrayFormat: Hardback, 120mm x 199mm, 550g, 248 pagesPublished: FUEL Publishing, United Kingdom, 2017The book includes examples from the 1960s through to the 1980s, but focuses on posters produced...
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,...
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border
Author: Timothy PhillipsFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 695g, 480 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2022The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as...
Window-Shopping Through the Iron Curtain
Author: David HlynskyFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 240mm, 860g, 208 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Communist shop windows may long have passed from history into irony, but their distinctive...
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...