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  • The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973

    The USSR's Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict

    by Isabella Ginor, Gideon Remez ...
    Russia's forceful re-entry into the Middle Eastern arena, and the accentuated continuity of Soviet policy and methods of the 1960s and '70s, highlight the topicality of this groundbreaking study, which confirms the USSR's role in shaping Middle Eastern and global history. This book covers the peak of the USSR's direct military involvement in the Egyptian-Israeli conflict. The head-on clash between ... Read more

    $32.39 CAD

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    A History

    by Orlando Figes ...
    From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" (Financial Times) and a Wolfson History Prize winner, comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age.The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale—these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. Less well-known is that this savage war (1853-1856) killed almost a million soldiers and countless civilians ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Six Days In June

    by Eric Hammel ...
    SIX DAYS IN JUNEHow Israel Won the 1967 Arab-Israeli WarEric HammelMilitary historian Eric Hammel becomes the first chronicler of the 1967 Six Day War to unite the story of development of Israels bold brand of military training and planning with a detailed narrative account of her breathtaking victories in Sinai, Jerusalem, The West Bank, and the Golan Heights. Unlike earlier accounts of the 1967 ... Read more

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  • Hearts Grown Brutal

    Sagas of Sarajevo

    by Roger Cohen ...
    In this brilliant book, Roger Cohen of The New York Times weaves together the history of Yugoslavia and the story of the Bosnian War of 1992 to 1995, as experienced by four families.“I have tried to treat the story of Yugoslavia, which lived for seventy-three years, as a human one,” Cohen writes in this masterly book, which, like Thomas L. Friedman’s From Beirut to Jerusalem and David Remnick’s ... Read more

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  • The Six Day War

    The Breaking of the Middle East

    by Guy Laron ...
    The author of Origins of the Suez Crisis "mak[es] us look afresh at the events that led to conflict between Israel and its neighbors" ( Financial Times).One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain why the conflict happened at all. Now, historian Guy Laron refutes the widely accepted ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Cold War

    A World History

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    A “big, serious, and thoroughly intelligent” (New York Review of Books) history of the Cold WarWe think of the Cold War as a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. But in The Cold War, award-winning historian Odd Arne Westad argues that the war must be understood as a global confrontation, with roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Russian Security and Paramilitary Forces since 1991

    by Mark Galeotti ...
    Series Book 197 - Elite
    A detailed illustrated study of Putin's shadowy security and paramilitary armed forces.While the size of Russia's regular forces has shrunk recently, its security and paramilitary elements have become increasingly powerful. Under the Putin regime they have proliferated and importantly seem set to remain Russia's most active armed agencies for the immediate future.In parallel, within the murky ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Resurgence of Central Asia

    Islam or Nationalism?

    by Ahmed Rashid ...
    A seminal introduction to the rise of Central Asia following the collapse of Tsarist Russia, this book has been out of print for two decades and is now more relevent than ever.The Resurgence of Central Asia is Ahmed Rashid’s seminal study of the states that emerged in the aftermath of the breakup of the Soviet Union: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. All have Muslim ... Read more

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  • A Bearskin's Crimea

    Colonel Henry Percy VC & His Brother Officers

    by Algernon Percy ...
    Using much previously untapped source material A Bearskins Crimea is a blow-by-blow account of the Grenadier Guards experiences in the Crimean War. The principal character, The Honourable Henry Percy, a member of the Northumberland family, was present at all the major battles of that appalling conflict: The Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman and the Seige of Sebastopol.Percy was no ordinary soldier: not ... Read more

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  • Medieval Russian Fortresses AD 862–1480

    by Konstantin S Nossov ...
    Series Book 61 - Fortress
    A history of the key fortresses that dominated the landscape of medieval Russia from its legendary foundations in the 9th century to its conquest by the Mongols and the eventual rise to power of the principality of Muscovy.According to Russian legend, in the year AD 862 the Slav tribes of what is now European Russia invited a number of Scandinavian princes to rule over them. However, on the death ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Hero of the Crossing

    How Anwar Sadat and the 1973 War Changed the World

    by Thomas W. Lippman ...
    In eleven dramatic years, Anwar Sadat changed history—not just that of Egypt, or of the Middle East, but of the entire world. As the architect of the 1973 war against Israel, he gained the support of other Arab nations and inspired the oil embargo that transformed the global economy. Following the war, however, he forever ended Arab aspirations of unity by making peace with Israel. Early in his ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War

    Edited by Rotem Kowner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    The Russo-Japanese War was the major conflict of the earliest decade of the twentieth century. The struggle for mastery in northeast Asia, specifically for control of Korea, was watched at the time very closely by observers from many other countries keen to draw lessons about the conduct of war in the modern industrial age. The defeat of a traditional European power by a non-white, non-western ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD