Russian Job - The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Famine (Smith Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

Russian Job - The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Famine (Smith Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

Douglas Smith's The Russian Job tells the captivating story of how American volunteers saved millions of people from starvation in Bolshevik

The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin (Smith Douglas)(Pevná vazba)

An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disasterAfter decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions, in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, cooperation between the United States and Russia

Former People - The Destruction of the Russian Aristocracy (Smith Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

The last great untold story of the Russian

A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union (White Elizabeth)(Paperback)

A Modern History of Russian Childhood examines the changes and continuities in ideas about Russian childhood from the 18th to the 21st century. It looks at how children were thought about and treated in Russian and Soviet culture, as well as how the radical social, political and economic changes

Active Goodness: The True Story Of How Trevor Chadwick, Doreen Warriner & Nicholas Winton Saved Thousands From The Nazis (Smith Edward Abel)(Paperback)

The remarkable true story of how three British heroes saved thousands of endangered Czech men, women, and children from the Nazis at the beginning of World War II. When university lecturer Doreen Warriner visited Prague in the winter of 1938, she was appalled at the sight of so many suffering

Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy (Smith Douglas)(Paperback)

The riveting and harrowing story of the Russian nobility caught in the upheaval of the Revolution Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Kansas City Star and SalonEpic in scope, precise in detail, and heartbreaking in its human drama, Former People is the

Spy Who Changed History - The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets (Lokhova Svetlana)(Paperback / softback)

'A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet espionage in the Thirties ... remarkable' 5* review, Telegraph On the trail of Soviet infiltrator Agent Bleriot, in this bestseller, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a thrilling journey through Stalin's most

The Modern Russian Army 1992-2016 (Galeotti Mark)(Paperback)

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's army has undergone a turbulent transformation: from the scattered leftovers of the old Soviet military, through a period of shocking decay and demoralization, to the disciplined force and sophisticated 'hybrid war' doctrine that enabled Vladimir

Armored Trains of the Soviet Union 1917-1945 (Kopenhagen Wilfried)(Paperback)

Shown are Soviet armored trains as used during the Russian Revolution, the Russian Civil War, and World War

From Ally To Enemy - The Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa, A Failed Intervention (Kibreab Gaim)(Paperback / softback)

The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century - Updated Edition (Stent Angela E.)(Paperback)

A gripping account of U.S.-Russian relations since the end of the Soviet Union The Limits of Partnership is a riveting narrative about U.S.-Russian relations from the Soviet collapse through the Ukraine crisis and the difficult challenges ahead. It reflects the unique perspective of an insider who

How The Irish Saved Civilization - The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Cahill Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

The untold story of Ireland's role, from the fall of Rome to the rise of medieval

Brighton in the Great War (D'Enno Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

Fascinating and much forgotten story of Brighton's contribution to the Great

State Of The Union (Kennedy Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

Raised in the creative chaos of 1960s America, Hannah vows to reject her parents' liberal lifestyle, and settles instead for typical family life in a nondescript corner of Maine. As her secret emerges, Hannah's life goes into freefall and she is left struggling against the force of the

Harvest of Sorrow - Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine (Conquest Robert)(Paperback / softback)

The Third Horseman: A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot (Rosen William)(Paperback)

The incredible true story of how a cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history--years before the Black Death, from the author of Justinian's Flea and the forthcoming Miracle Cure In May 1315, it started to rain. For the seven disastrous years that

Father of Lions - How One Man Defied Isis and Saved Mosul Zoo (Callaghan Louise)(Paperback / softback)

This is a story of human decency in the midst of barbarism - how the zookeeper of Mosul Zoo saved the animals during the Isis rule of the city between 2014 and

1983 - The World at the Brink (Downing Taylor)(Paperback / softback)

A tense, thrilling account of how, in 1983, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly caused global

The Secret Speech - Tom Rob Smith

The Soviet Union 1956: after Stalin's death, a violent regime is beginning to fracture. Stalin's successor Khrushchev pledges reform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget the past.Leo Demidov, former MGB officer, is facing his own turmoil. His adopted daughters have yet

Counting Descent (Smith Clint)(Paperback)

From the author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America* Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award * Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards * One Book One New Orleans 2017 Book Selection * Published in The New Yorker, The New

Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union (Balmaceda Margarita M.)(Paperback)

Russia's use of its vast energy resources for leverage against post-Soviet states such as Ukraine is widely recognized as a threat. Yet we cannot understand this danger without also understanding the opportunity that Russian energy represents. From corruption-related profits to transportation-fee

Good Place to Hide - How One Community Saved Thousands of Lives from the Nazis In WWII (Grose Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Told with the full cooperation of many of the survivors, this is the story of WWII's greatest

Black '47: A Story of Ireland's Great Famine - A Graphic Novel (Goodfellow Damien)(Paperback / softback)

The story of The Great Hunger told as a graphic novel from the perspectives of Irish men, women and children from June 1847 onward. This graphic novel brings the suffering and immediacy of the Irish Famine to life through the combination of word and

Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet (Rusch Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

The true story of how a scientist saved the planet from environmental disaster. Mexican American Mario Molina is a modern-day hero who helped solve the ozone crisis of the 1980s. Growing up in Mexico City, Mario was a curious boy who studied hidden worlds through a microscope. As a young man in