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A Short History of Russia by Mark Galeotti
Category: History
Can anyone truly understand Russia? Let one of the world's leading experts show you how, using the fascinating history of a nation to illuminate its future.Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethnos, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it is everyone's 'oth ...Show more
A Short History of Russia by Mark Galeotti
Category: History
An essential short history of Russia by acclaimed writer and expert Mark Galeotti, taking us from Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great, to the Russian Revolution, the fall of the USSR and the rise of Vladimir Putin - and updated to include the road to the Ukrainian war.'Fascinating... One of the mo ...Show more
A Short History of Russia - How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin by Mark Galeotti
Category: History
A Library Journal 2020 Title to Watch"Terrific - and an amazing achievement to cover so much ground in such a short and wonderfully readable book." -Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk RoadsRussia's epic story told in an accessible, lively and short form, using the country's fascinating hist ...Show more
Putin Takes Crimea 2014 - Grey-Zone Warfare Opens the Russia-Ukraine Conflict by Mark Galeotti; Irene Cano Rodriguez (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Raid Ser.
An authoritative analysis of how Putin's Russia conquered the Crimea in 2014 using 'grey zone' warfare techniques, blending operations by anonymous special forces with cyber, sabotage, and propaganda. Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 was almost bloodless - fought as much through propaganda, cyber ...Show more
Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine by Mark Galeotti
Category: Non-Fiction
A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably reshaped Russia, including his devastating invasion of Ukraine. Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Cheche ...Show more
Putin's Wars - From Chechnya to Ukraine by Mark Galeotti
Category: History
Written by one of the world's leading experts on modern Russia, Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts into which Russia has plunged since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president. From the First and Second Chechen Wars to the military incursion into Georgia, the annexation of ...Show more
Storm-333 - KGB and Spetsnaz Seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979 by Mark Galeotti; Mark Stacey (Illustrator); Johnny Shumate (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Raid Ser.
Storm-333, the operation to seize Kabul and assassinate Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin, was at once a textbook success and the start of a terrible blunder. It heralded the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, an operation intended to be a short, largely symbolic show of force, yet which quickly devolved into ...Show more
The Vory - Russia`s Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti
Category: Politics
The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascina ...Show more
The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti
Category: True Crime
From the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia comes the first English-language work to document the men who emerged from the Gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the "vory v zakone."
The Weaponisation of Everything - A Field Guide to the New Way of War by Mark Galeotti
Category: Military
An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now waged--and how to adapt to this new reality "This brisk everyman's guide--straight-talking and free of jargon--is a useful tasting menu to a fast moving, constantly evolving set of problems. . . . A lively reminder that war adapts to technolo ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong by Mark Galeotti
Category: Politics
Meet the world's most dangerous man.Who is the real Vladimir Putin? What does he want? And what will he do next? Despite the millions of words written on Putin's Russia, the West still fails to truly understand one of the world's most powerful politicians, whose influence spans the globe and whose netwo ...Show more
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