Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of “Eurasianism,” a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s...
For decades American submarines have roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information and advantage in missions known only to a select few. Now, after six years of research, those missions are told in Blind Man's Bluff, a magnificent...
Translated from the Ukrainian by Yuri Tkach, woodcuts by Lopata. A short history of the Ukrainian Cossacks has been included as a foreward to give the English speaking reader background knowledge of the events taking place in this novel. This book...
Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine came from nowhere? Felshtinsky and Stanchev’s gripping history chronicles Ukraine’s story from its origins to its modern day struggle to ward off Russian interference. A bestseller published after Russia...
Kirjassa kiinnitetään erityistä huomiota kivenhakkaajien alkuperään sekä eurooppalaisiin rakennusperinteisiin, jotka vaikuttivat Bluegrassin tyypillisen ilmeen muodostumiseen. Kentuckyn maaseudun ilmeen 1800-luvulla määrittäneiden lukuisten...
In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, the Soviet world chess champion, Boris Spassky,and his American challenger, Bobby Fischer, met in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the most...
Nikolay İvanoviç Kostomarov’un «Bohdan Khmelnytsky» adlı eseri, Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky’nin hayatı, siyasi faaliyetleri ve askeri yeteneğinin yanı sıra, 17. yüzyıl ortalarında Ukrayna halkının Ulusal Kurtuluş Savaşı’na...
The French expedition to Egypt, which Bonaparte launched in 1798, was one of the most exciting, harrowing, futile, and yet most fruitful adventures in modern times. Although the expedition was doomed, and almost everyone in it had only one...
Books That Changed the World tells the fascinating stories behind 50 books that, in ways great and small, have changed the course of human history. Andrew Taylor sets each text in its historical context and explores its wider influence and legacy....