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Kremlin Letters Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt

Reynolds David, Pechatnov Vladimir

ISBN: PB: 9780300247657, ISBN: HB: 9780300226829, Yale University Press, August 2019
680 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 24 black&white illus., 3 maps

Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volume – the fruit of a unique British-Russian scholarly collaboration – the messages are published and also ana...

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Kingdoms of Faith A New History of Islamic Spain

Catlos Brian A.

ISBN: HB: 9781787380035, Hurst Publishers, July 2018
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain either as a paradise of enlightened tolerance, or as the site where civilisations clashed. Award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos taps a wide array of original sources to paint a mor...

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Military

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Kursk 1943 The Greatest Battle of the Second World War

Toeppel Roman

ISBN: HB: 9781912390038, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
184 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 8 colour maps, 1 table

The Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 was one of the greatest battles in military history involving more than 3 million soldiers, 10,000 tanks and 8,000 aircraft. While many books have been written on this allegedly most decisive battle of the Se...

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Polonica

Katyn A Crime Without Punishment

Cienciala Anna M., Lebedeva Natalia S., Materski Wojciech

ISBN: PB: 9780300195477, Yale University Press, January 2013
618 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The book shows the background and mechanics of the Soviet mass executions in spring 1940 of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war – army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians – taken by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. The...

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Business & Economics

Kipper und Wipper Inflation, 1619-1623 An Economic History with Contemporary German Broadsheets

White Paas Martha, Paas John Roger, Schoolfield George C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300146769, Yale University Press, July 2012
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

This book is an economic analysis of the Kipper und Wipper inflation of 1619-1623, the most serious German inflation before the hyperinflation following World War I, with a particular focus on how it affected people's lives and behaviour. The volume...

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King Stephen

King Edmund

ISBN: PB: 9780300181951, Yale University Press, February 2012
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135-1154), with its "nineteen long winters" of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the sources, Ed...

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Political Science

Kirov Murder and Soviet History

Lenoe Matthew E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300112368, Yale University Press, June 2010
864 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash...

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Kremlin Rising Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution (Updated Edition)

Baker Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781597971225, Casemate, Potomac Books, March 2007
478 pp., 23x15 cm

With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on a fitful transition to Western-style democracy and a market economy. But a decade later, Boris Yeltsin's handpicked successor – Vladimir Putin, a self-described childhood hooligan...

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