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“michael mac diarmada”

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  • The Black Baron: Wrangel, the White Army, and the Last Campaign of Imperial Russia

    by Michael Mac Diarmada ...
    In November 1920, Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel stood on the bridge of the cruiser General Kornilov as the last ship departed Sevastopol harbour, watching the Crimean coast disappear into the darkness. Behind him lay the wreckage of three years of civil war. Ahead lay Constantinople, exile, and the question of what could be built from what remained.The Black Baron is the definitive narrative ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Son of the Volga: The Life, Rebellion, and Immortal Legend of Stepan Razin

    by Michael Mac Diarmada ...
    Son of the Volga: The Life, Rebellion, and Immortal Legend of Stepan RazinIn 1667, a wounded Don Cossack warrior descended the Volga River with eight hundred desperate men and a grievance that had been building for a generation. Within three years, Stepan Razin commanded twenty thousand fighters, had destroyed a Persian imperial fleet, conquered a corridor of cities stretching across the Russian ... Read more

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  • Destined For War

    Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

    by Graham Allison ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER | NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR.From an eminent international security scholar, an urgent examination of the geopolitical conditions that could produce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and China—and how it might be prevented.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants. The reason is Thucydides’s Trap: when a rising power ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Russian History: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Geoffrey Hosking ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Spanning the divide between Europe and Asia, Russia is a multi-ethnic empire with a huge territory, strategically placed and abundantly provided with natural resources. But Russia's territory has a harsh climate, is cut off from most maritime contact with the outside world, and has open and vulnerable land frontiers. It has therefore had to devote much of its wealth to the armed forces, and the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Russia

    The Once and Future Empire from Pre-History to Putin

    by Philip Longworth ...
    "A gripping and supremely readable book . . . combines shrewd analysis of Russia's . . . appetite for empire with a wonderful narrative pace and fine scholarship." —Simon Sebag-Montefiore, New York Times– bestselling authorThrough the centuries, Russia has swung sharply between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse, and spectacular recovery. This illuminating history traces these ... Read more

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  • A Military History of China

    Edited by David A. Graff, Robin Higham ...
    Gaining an understanding of China's long and sometimes bloody history can help to shed light on China's ascent to global power. Many of China's imperial dynasties were established as the result of battle, from the chariot warfare of ancient times to the battles of the Guomindang (KMT) and Communist regimes of the twentieth century. China's ability to sustain complex warfare on a very large scale ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Children of the Greek Civil War

    Refugees and the Politics of Memory

    by Loring M. Danforth, Riki Van Boeschoten ...
    At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, thirty-eight thousand children were evacuated from their homes in the mountains of northern Greece. The Greek Communist Party relocated half of them to orphanages in Eastern Europe, while their adversaries in the national government placed the rest in children's homes elsewhere in Greece. A point of contention during the Cold War, this controversial ... Read more

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  • Forged in War

    A military history of Russia from its beginnings to today

    by Mark Galeotti ...
    A masterful history of how war and insecurity, both real and perceived, have driven Russia's destiny for centuries, including the disastrous invasion of Ukraine.Putin retains his stranglehold on his position in Russia despite an almost ruinous invasion of Ukraine. The answer as to how and why can be found in Russian history. With no naturally defensible borders, and environmental factors ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • How the West Came to Rule

    The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism

    by Alexander Anievas, Kerem Nişancıoğlu ...
    *Winner of International Studies Association (ISA)'s International Political Sociology Best Book Prize for 2017**Winner of British International Studies Association (BISA)'s International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize of 2016**Shortlisted for the ISA Book Prize*Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundamentally European - a system ... Read more

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  • Internal Colonization

    Russia's Imperial Experience

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision of colonization as simultaneously internal and external, colonizing one’s own people as well as others, is crucial for scholars of empire, colonialism ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • What is Military History?

    by Stephen Morillo ...
    Series series What is History?
    The third edition of What is Military History? has been thoroughly updated, and includes a new bibliography and new case studies on naval warfare and the origins of war, as well as expanded sections on historiography, environmental history and world history.This popular textbook showcases a field that encompasses not only accounts of campaigns and battles, but includes a wide range of perspectives ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Russian Moment in World History

    by Marshall T. Poe ...
    Is Russian history one big inevitable failure? The Soviet Union's demise and Russia's ensuing troubles have led many to wonder. But this is to look through a skewed prism indeed. In this provocative and elegantly written short history of Russia, Marshall Poe takes us well beyond the Soviet haze deep into the nation's fascinating--not at all inevitable, and in key respects remarkably successful- ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD