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A Nasty Little War: The Western Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid
34.99 AUD
Category: History
In the closing months of WW1, with the world exhausted and depleted by a long a brutal war, fifteen nations cobbled together an army of nearly 200,000 men and embarked on one of the most extraordinary and ambitious military ventures of the twentieth century. The Intervention in Russia's civil war was sp ...Show more
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine by Anna Reid
24.99 AUD
Category: History
FULLY UPDATED'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture'INDEPENDENT. Flat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders, for centuries Ukraine was fought over by more powerful neighbours. Though its modern national movement dates back to the early ninet ...Show more
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine by Anna Reid
26.99 AUD
Category: History
A classic and vivid history of Ukraine, fully updated to cover the Euromaidan Revolution in 2014 and ongoing crisis in the Donbass. Centre of the first great Slav civilisation in the tenth century, then divided between warring neighbours for a millennium, Ukraine finally won independence with the collap ...Show more
Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941-44 by Anna Reid
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not be lifted for two and a half years and during the 872 days of blockade and bombardment as many as two million Soviet lives wou ...Show more
Leningrad: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44 by Anna Reid
21.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, he intended to capture Leningrad before turning on Moscow. Soviet resistance forced him to change tactics: with his forward troops only thirty kilometres from the city's historic centre, he decided instead to starve it out. Using newly available diarie ...Show more
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