Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“william smith murray”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “william smith murray”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Making of the Balkan States

    by William Smith Murray ...
    Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.The Making of the Balkan States is a fascinating history of the Balkans from 1800-1900. ... Read more

    $2.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of the Balkan States

    by William Smith Murray ...
    This is a contemporary 20th century history of the Balkans, and the volatile political situation that helped spark World War I. ... Read more

    $3.01 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

People who read these also enjoyed

  • I Used to Know That: History

    by Emma Marriott ...
    Series Book 18 - I Used to Know That
    If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, ‘Hmm, I’ve heard of that – what was that again?’, then this is the book for you.This entertaining yet informative book travels back through time to fill in those embarrassing gaps in your knowledge, from the invasions of Britain, the Renaissance and the Cold War, to the American, French and Russian ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Cossacks

    Their History and Country

    by William Penn Cresson ...
    “Had I just 10,000 Cossacks, I would have conquered the whole world.”– Napoleon BonaparteCossacks are a group of predominantly East Slavic-speaking people who became known as members of democratic, self-governing, semi-military communities, predominantly located in Ukraine and in Russia. They inhabited sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper, Don, Terek, and Ural river basins and ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • A Short History of Russia (1907)

    by Mary Platt Parmele ...
    First published in 1907. According to the Preface: "If this book seems to have departed from the proper ideal of historic narrative--if it is the history of a Power, and not of a People--it is because the Russian people have had no history yet. There has been no evolution of a Russian nation, but only of a vast governing system; and the words "Russian Empire" stand for a majestic world-power in ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Balkan Wars

    1912-1913, Third Edition

    by Jacob Gould Schurman ...
    For many countries in Europe, the early twentieth century was a maelstrom of conflict, as age-old alliances and feuds shifted and realigned in response to modernity, imperialism, colonialism, and myriad other variables. In this wide-ranging analysis of the Balkan Wars that erupted in 1912 and 1913 when Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, and Montenegro mounted a joint attack against the Ottoman Empire, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Matchlocks to Flintlocks

    Warfare in Europe and Beyond, 1500–1700

    by William Urban ...
    "A big picture view of how changes in the way war was waged between 1500 and 1700 affected the world at large . . . an exemplary book." —War in HistoryIn the early modern world three dominant cultures of war were shaped by a synergy of their internal and external interactions. One was Latin Christian western Europe. Another was Ottoman Islam. The third, no less vital for so often being overlooked, ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prussia

    The Evolution of an Empire

    by John Marriot ...
    SINCE the death of Frederick the Great in 1786 the kingdom of Prussia has been a state of a unique type, occupying a special position both in Germany and in Europe. Since 1867 it has accomplished by its own methods a momentous task, the unification of Germany and the erection of a German Empire, under the presidency of the House of Hohenzollern. Since 1871 it is not without the justification of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of the Balkans

    by Ferdinand Schevill ...
    THIS book is concerned with the story of man on the southeastern projection of Europe, known as the Balkan peninsula. For practical purposes the story begins with the Greeks, because the Greeks, though not the original inhabitants of the peninsula, were the first to leave a clear record of themselves and their neighbors. From the Hellenic period, when the mists hiding the land from view begin to ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of the Balkan States

    by William Murray ...
    THE interference of nations in the internal affairs of other countries, although once a more common thing than it is to-day, has continued to play an important role in the creation of new states. This has happened despite the tendency of leading nations in recent times to take more and more account of the principle of non-intervention. Certain changes in ideas and conditions during the past ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of the Cossacks

    by William Cresson ...
    THE level plains and steppes of South Russia were known to the ancients as the broad channel followed by the ebb and flow of every fresh wave of conquest or migration passing between Europe and Asia. The legions of Rome and Byzance found this territory as impossible to occupy by military force as the high seas. The little known history of "Scythia" – from the earliest times until the thirteenth ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ivan the Terrible

    A Military History

    by Alexander Filjushkin ...
    An in-depth look at the military strategy of the first Russian ruler to invade Europe.Ivan's campaigns against the Livonian Confederation were initially very successful. In 1558, Russian soldiers occupied Dorpat and Narva, and laid siege to Reval, creating vital trade routes over the Baltic Sea. At the Battle of Ergema, the Russians defeated the knights of the Livonian Order, fueling Ivan's dreams ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus