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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

  • 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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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    ₹315.49

  • 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

    ₹454.52

  • 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

  • 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

  • Killer in the Kremlin

    A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny from the instant Sunday times bestseller

    by John Sweeney ...
    NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS'Killer in the Kremlin traces Putin's bloody career... a life littered with corpses' THE TIMES'An extraordinarily prescient and fascinating book' NIHAL ARTHANAYAKEA gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. In Killer in the ... Read more

    ₹721.20

  • Russia's War

    by Richard Overy ...
    RUSSIA'S WAR is the epic account of the greatest military encounter in human history. In a vivid, often shocking narrative, Richard Overy describes the astounding events of 1941-45 in which the Soviet Union, after initial catastrophes, destroyed Hitler's Third Reich and shaped European history for the next half Century. ... Read more

    ₹540.66

  • A People's Tragedy

    The Russian Revolution - the definitive history

    by Orlando Figes ...
    The most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today.Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is widely hailed as the definitive account of the Russian Revolution.Orlando Figes weaves scholarship and storytelling to capture both the epic scale and personal cost of 1917. Gripping and compassionate, he draws on the diaries and ... Read more

    ₹795.90

  • The Quiet Before

    On the unexpected origins of radical ideas

    by Gal Beckerman ...
    'The Quiet Before is a fascinating and important exploration of how ideas that change the world incubate and spread.' Steven Pinker'Filled with insightful analysis and colourful storytelling... Rarely does a book give you a new way of looking at social change. This one does.' Walter IsaacsonWhy do some radical ideas make history?We tend to think of revolutions as loud: frus... ... Read more

    ₹721.20

  • Armageddon Averted

    The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000

    by Stephen Kotkin ...
    Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue--bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse--this compact, original, and engaging book offers the definitive account of one of the great historical events of the last fifty years. Combining historical and ... Read more

    ₹403.23

  • In Broad Daylight

    The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets

    by Father Patrick Desbois ...
    An award-winning author details how more than two million Jews were murdered by the Nazis and their allies—for all the world to see and helped by neighbors.After ten years of research and interviews with more than 5,700 neighbors to the murdered Jews and visits to more than 2,700 extermination sites, many of them unmarked, one key finding: Genocide does not happen without the neighbors. The ... Read more

    ₹362.99

  • Putin's Labyrinth

    Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia

    by Steve LeVine ...
    “A riveting look at today’s Russia under the leadership of Vladimir Putin.”—The Kingston ObserverIn Putin’s Labyrinth, acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived inand reported from the former Soviet Union for more than a decade, provides a gripping account of modern Russia. In a penetrating narrative that recounts the lives and deaths of six Russians, LeVine portrays the growth of a “culture of ... Read more

    ₹402.37

  • The Last Empire

    The Final Days of the Soviet Union

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe offers “a stirring account of an extraordinary moment” in Russian history (Wall Street Journal)On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, ... Read more

    ₹1,272.03

  • The Way of a Pilgrim

    And the Pilgrim Continues His Way

    Series Book 8 - Image Classics
    This enduring work of Russian spirituality has charmed countless people with its tale of a nineteenth-century peasant's quest for the secret of prayer. Readers follow this anonymous pilgrim as he treks over the Steppes in search of the answer to the one compelling question: How does one pray constantly? Through his journeys, and under the tutelage of a spiritual father, he becomes gradually more ... Read more

    ₹335.11

  • Lenin on the Train

    by Catherine Merridale ...
    THE TIMES, THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'Twice I missed my stop on the Tube reading this book... this is a jewel among histories' David Aaronovitch, The Times'The suberb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin's trans-European rail journey to power and how it shook the world' - Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard Books of the YearA gripp... ... Read more

    ₹375.46

  • War and Revolution

    Rethinking the Twentieth Century

    by Domenico Losurdo ...
    Translated by Gregory Elliott ...
    War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians. It is a revisionist tendency discernible in the work of authors such as Ernst Nolte, who traces the impetus behind the Holocaust to the excesses of the Russian Revolution; or Fran�ois Furet, who links the Stalinist purges to an "illness" originating with the French Revolution.In this vigorous riposte ... Read more

    ₹1,012.55 or Free with Kobo Plus