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  • The Stuff of Soldiers

    A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects

    by Brandon M. Schechter ...
    Series series Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
    The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon M. Schechter attends to a diverse array of things—from spoons to tanks—to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the provisioning of material goods separated soldiers from civilians.Through a fascinating examination of leaflets, proclamations, newspapers, manuals, ... Read more

    ₹2,116.44

  • The Mitrokhin Archive II

    The KGB in the World

    by Christopher Andrew ...
    The second sensational volume of 'One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years' (The Times)When Vasili Mitrokhin revealed his archive of Russian intelligence material to the world it caused an international sensation. The Mitrokhin Archive II reveals in full the secrets of this remarkable cache, showing for the first time the astonishing extent of the KGB's global power and influence.'The ... Read more

    ₹751.53

  • Stalingrad

    by Antony Beevor ...
    The international million copy bestseller recounting the epic turning point of the WW2______________In October 1942, an officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town . . . Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'.The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination and its citizens endured unimaginable hardship as a result. But ... Read more

    ₹468.92

  • Rasputin

    The Biography

    by Douglas Smith ...
    **'The definitive biography' – Simon Sebag Montefiore, bestselling author of The RomanovsGet lost in the labyrinthine life of Grigori Rasputin, an enigmatic figure that continues to puzzle historians to this day.Drawing on major new sources hitherto unexamined by western historians, Russian history expert Douglas Smith offers an unparalleled biography that exposes the mysteries and myths ... Read more

    ₹764.27

  • Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy over China, 1894–1945

    by Hiroaki Kuromiya ...
    Series series Routledge Open History
    Stalin was a master of deception, disinformation, and camouflage, by means of which he gained supremacy over China and defeated imperialism on Chinese soil. This book examines Stalin’s covert operations in his hunt for supremacy.By the late 1920s Britain had ceded place to Japan as Stalin’s main enemy in Asia. By seducing Japan deeply into China, Stalin successfully turned Japan’s aggression into ... Read more

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  • Chernobyl

    History of a Tragedy

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2018'An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' - Viv Groskop, ObserverThe gripping story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, from an acclaimed ... Read more

    ₹450.63

  • Iron Curtain

    The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56

    by Anne Applebaum ...
    At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system: communism. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern ... Read more

    ₹510.69

  • Endgame 1944

    How Stalin Won The War. The Sunday Times bestselling WW2 book about the year that sealed the Nazis' fate

    by Jonathan Dimbleby ...
    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'This book is his best yet . . . Dimbleby’s work is in a different league, told with such skill and judgment' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesA gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the bestselling historianJune 1944: In Operation Bagration, more than two million Red Army soldiers, facing 500,000 Ger... ... Read more

    ₹1,389.08

  • The Story of Russia

    'An excellent short study'

    by Orlando Figes ...
    A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian scholarship' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE**'**A great historian at the peak of his powers' WILLIAM D... ... Read more

    ₹407.21

  • How United States Shot Humanity

    Muslims Ruined; Europe Next

    by Ashish Shukla ...
    Most of us are baffled (a) There is practically no al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Then why United States is not leaving the opium-rich, strategically vital mountainous country in a hurry (b) Al-Qaeda never attacks Israel though as champion of Islam, you would think the Jewish nation ought to be its first target (c) United States launched "War on Drugs" in 1971. It heralded "War on Terrorism" in 2001. US ... Read more

    ₹454.05

  • Hitler vs Stalin: The Battle of Stalingrad

    by Francis Hayes ...
    Series Book 2 - Legendary Battles of History
    It was the most decisive battle of the Second World War. It brought the two most ruthless dictators of the 20th Century against each other in an epic clash of wills. It would kill close to 2 million people. And it would introduce a level of vicious street fighting that had never been seen before.The Battle of Stalingrad was the most horrendous cauldron of warfare that has ever been inflicted on a ... Read more

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  • Gulag

    A History of the Soviet Camps

    by Anne Applebaum ...
    This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions.Gulag is the only major history in any language to draw together the mass of memoirs and writings on the Soviet camps that have been published in Russia and the West. Using these, as well as her own ... Read more

    ₹601.08

  • Dictators and Autocrats

    Securing Power across Global Politics

    Edited by Klaus Larres ...
    In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions.The book looks at both traditional "hard" dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and more modern ... Read more

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  • After Stalingrad: The Red Army's Winter Offensive 1942-1943

    The Red Army's Winter Offensive, 1942-1943

    by David M. Glantz ...
    In the wake of the Red Army's signal victory at Stalingrad, which began when its surprise counteroffensive encircled German Sixth Army in Stalingrad region in mid-November 1942 and ended when its forces liquidated beleaguered Sixth Army in early February 1943, the Soviet High Command (Stavka) expanded its counteroffensive into a full-fledged winter offensive which nearly collapsed German defenses ... Read more

    ₹1,400.88 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russia

    A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East

    by Martin Sixsmith ...
    Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a thousand years, and how it can help us understand its often baffling behaviour at home and abroad.Combining in-depth research and interviews with his ... Read more

    ₹525.91

  • Florence Nightingale

    The Woman and Her Legend

    by Mark Bostridge ...
    Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography'Engrossing' Claire Tomalin / 'Superb' Sunday Times / 'A triumph' Daily MailWhether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been misrepresented and misunderstood. As the Lady with the Lamp, ministering to the wounded and dying of the Crimean War, she offers an enduring image of sentimental ... Read more

    ₹639.90

  • Spatial Revolution

    Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union

    by Christina E. Crawford ...
    Spatial Revolution is the first comparative parallel study of Soviet architecture and planning to create a narrative arc across a vast geography. The narrative binds together three critical industrial-residential projects in Baku, Magnitogorsk, and Kharkiv, built during the first fifteen years of the Soviet project and followed attentively worldwide after the collapse of capitalist markets in 1929 ... Read more

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  • Shadow State

    Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West

    by Luke Harding ...
    FROM THE AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF COLLUSIONA gripping investigative account of how Russia's spies helped elect Donald Trump, backed Brexit, murdered enemies and threatened the very basis of western democracy.NEW AND UPDATED EDITION'Luke Harding is one of the best reporters in the world . . . [they are] an oustanding writer, stuck in the ... ... Read more

    ₹539.60

  • The Last Man in Russia

    And The Struggle To Save A Dying Nation

    by Oliver Bullough ...
    From Oliver Bullough, the acclaimed author of the Orwell Prize-shortlisted, Let Our Fame Be Great, a study - part travelogue, part political analysis - of a nation in crisisThe Last Man in Russia is a portrait of the country like no other; a quest to understand the soul of Russia. Award-winning writer Oliver Bullough travels the country from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept village, ... Read more

    ₹375.46

  • Londongrad

    From Russia with Cash; The Inside Story of the Oligarchs

    by Mark Hollingsworth, Stewart Lansley ...
    The amazing true story of how London became home to the Russian super-rich – told for the first time ever. A dazzling tale of incredible wealth, ferocious disputes, beautiful women, private jets, mega-yachts, the world’s best footballers – and chauffeur-driven Range Rovers with tinted windows.A group of buccaneering Russian oligarchs made colossal fortunes after the collapse of communism – and ... Read more

    ₹454.05

  • The Border - A Journey Around Russia

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020

    by Erika Fatland ...
    Translated by Kari Dickson ...
    A journey along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way."Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the Nordics' most exciting new travel writers" National Geographic**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORDS DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**"A hauntingly ... Read more

    ₹391.16

  • The World and All That It Holds

    by Aleksandar Hemon ...
    'This life-stuffed novel is Aleksandar Hemon’s masterpiece' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud AtlasThe World and All That It Holds is the epic, cross-continental tale of a love so strong it conquers the Great War, revolution, and even death itself.As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at ... Read more

    ₹476.71

  • Putin and the Return of History

    How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War

    by Martin Sixsmith ...
    An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War.Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance - a hubris that ... Read more

    Was ₹611.23 Now ₹475.17

  • Revolution Goes East

    Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism

    by Tatiana Linkhoeva ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Revolution Goes East is an intellectual history that applies a novel global perspective to the classic story of the rise of communism and the various reactions it provoked in Imperial Japan. Tatiana Linkhoeva demonstrates how contemporary discussions of the Russian Revolution, its containment, and the issue of imperialism played a fundamental role in shaping Japan's imperial society and state.In ... Read more

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