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  • Catherine the Great

    Life and Legend

    Series series
    One of the most colorful characters in modern history, Catherine II of Russia began her life as a minor German princess, until the childless Empress Elizabeth and Catherine's own scheming mother married her off to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at age sixteen. By thirty-three, she had overthrown her husband in a bloodless coup and established herself as Empress of the multinational Russian Empire, ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Catherine the Great: Life and Legend

    Life and Legend

    Series series
    One of the most colorful characters in modern history, Catherine II of Russia began her life as a minor German princess, until the childless Empress Elizabeth and Catherine's own scheming mother married her off to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at age sixteen. By thirty-three, she had overthrown her husband in a bloodless coup and established herself as Empress of the multinational Russian Empire, ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

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  • Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

    “[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Street JournalThe Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Shantaram

    A Novel

    Now a major television series from Apple TV+ starring Charlie Hunnam!“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.”An escaped convict with a false passport, Lin flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Campaigns of World War II: The Eastern Front

    Series series Campaigns of World War II
    The conflict on the Eastern Front in World War II was colossal in both scale and intensity, as the two infamous dictators of the twentieth century Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin vied for supremacy in Eastern Europe. On 22 June 1941 it was Hitler's fateful decision to launch the largest invasion ever seen, Operation Barbarossa, when 138 German divisions attacked the Soviet Union. Four years later, ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spetsnaz

    The Inside Story of the Soviet Special Forces

    Viktor Suvorov is a Soviet army officer who has defected to the West. Here is the full story of the Spetsnaz forces, the Soviet army's secret killer elite.This is the first comprehensive insight for the West into a Soviet "army within an army" whose existence has been known until recently only to a few highly placed people--most of whom would deny it.The spetsnaz Soviet special forces are one of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • From October to Brest-Litovsk

    by Leon Trotsky ...
    "From October to Brest-Litovsk" is a compelling account by Leon Trotsky that chronicles the tumultuous period of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent negotiations for peace with Germany. Trotsky, a key figure in the Bolshevik movement, provides a firsthand perspective on the political and military challenges faced by the new Soviet government. His narrative captures the fervor of ... Read more

    $1.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime

    by Richard Pipes ...
    From the accliamed authority on Russia and the Russian Revolution—the final volume in his magisterial history of the Russian Revolution, covering the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to Lenin's death in 1924"Offers a penetrating analysis of the making of the Soviet system.... [It is] a passionate book whose outstanding scholarship is rooted in universal values like truth, honor, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era

    by Alex Shishin ...
    Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era is a poignant sketch of the Soviet Union prior to its disastrous invasion of Afghanistan. It is also a bittersweet tale of an American coming to terms with his Russian roots.One summer in the late 1970s, author Alex Shishin travels through the USSR on the Rossiya, the Trans-Siberian train that runs between Vladivostok and Moscow and that twice carries him ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Krystyna's Story

    A piecing together of a Polish child's journey through Europe at war, and a young woman's bewildering encounter with rural New Zealand. 'As a child I loved my mother but she seemed different from other mothers. She didn't know how old she was. She couldn't remember where she was born. I wondered what had happened to her that she could have forgotten such important things. It had something to do ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Russian Legends: The Life and Legacy of Peter the Great

    *Includes pictures of Peter and important people, places, and events.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. “I have conquered an empire, but have not been able to conquer myself.” Peter the GreatA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Russian Mennonites

    A Story Of Flights And Resettlements-- To Homelands In The Ukraine, The Chaco, T

    by Wally Kroeker ...
    Mennonites in Russia? Invited by Catherine the Great to farm the Russian steppes -- in exchange for exemption from military service -- Mennonite emigrants from Polish Prussia and The Netherlands made their home in Russia. Some remain today; many more eventually left for North and South Americas and Europe. Nearly all retain memories and stories from that place -- unbelievable prosperity for some; ... Read more

    $7.95 CAD