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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
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David Fromkin
This history charts the post-World War I efforts by the Allies to deal with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and how decisions made then influenced the region's history and geopolitics for the rest of the century (and beyond). These efforts included creating new states and entities, including what was to become Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and, later, ...
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Child 44
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Tom Rob Smith
In Stalin's Soviet Union, it's a crime against the State to suggest that a murderer--much less a serial killer--is in the midst of the populace. Exiled from his home, a war hero must find and stop a criminal that the State won't admit even exists. Grand Central Publishing
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The charm school
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Nelson DeMille
An American tourist unwittingly picks up an escaped prisoner of war on the road in Russia and gets caught in an international spy web.
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Crime and Punishment
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Fyodor M Dostoevsky
This 1866 novel is Dostoevsky's great fictional study of the criminal mind, in the character of the student Raskolnikov, who murders an aged pawnbroker. Initially, Raskolnikov believes that the killing was entirely justified, but as the novel proceeds he becomes tortured by his guilt, and begins to question all his most passionately held beliefs. ...
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Anna Karenina
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count
Tolstoy's great novel, one of his last works of fiction, tells the story of a harmless flirtation that gradually develops into a destructive passion: the love affair between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky. Anna turns to Vronsky, a dashing military man, as a refuge from her passionless marriage to a pompous, chilly bureaucrat--a move that results ...
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Robert F Kennedy
This volume presents Senator Robert F. Kennedy's perspective on the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, 13 days during which the world seemed on the brink of nuclear war. Kennedy was U.S. Attorney General at the time, which gave him a firsthand perspective on his brother's negotiations with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
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Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn's gripping epic masterpiece, the searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression, in one abridged volume, authorized by the author
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Last of the Breed
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Louis L'Amour
In this thriller, a Native American Air Force pilot must rely on his wits and survival skills after escaping from a Russian prison as he begins a long, lonely trek across the Bering Strait to freedom in the U.S.
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War & Peace
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count
Leo Tolstoy's WAR AND PEACE is an epic war novel, an exploration of family ties, and a manifesto of Tolstoy's beliefs. Against the background of Napoleon's invasion of Russia in the early 1800s, WAR AND PEACE spans the social spectrum, depicting three families--their love affairs, intellectual struggles, and personal conflicts--and the cataclysmic ...
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Peter the Great
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Robert K Massie
"Enthralling . . . As fascinating as any novel and more so than most." The New York Times Book Review The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bestseller by the author of DREADNOUGHT. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, one of the most extraordinary rulers in ...
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
In this, the only English translation authorised by Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn, ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH stands as a classic of contemporary literature. It is an unforgettable portrait of the world of Stalin's forced work camps, and remains one of the most extraordinary literary documents of its time. It confirmed Solzhenitzyn's stature ...
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Brothers Karamazov
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Fyodor M Dostoevsky
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV states and exemplifies Dostoevsky's most urgent concerns as a writer: the struggle between faith and the lack of it, the nature of love and hate, the question of God's existence, and generational conflict. The latter is represented in his novel by the father, Fyodor Karamazov, and his four very different sons: the saintly ...
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The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
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Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin
This book is based on secret documents (reportedly about 6 trunks' worth) which were smuggled out of Russia by Vasili Mitrokhin, who worked in the KGB archive. Historian and intelligence expert Christopher Andrew tells of Mitrokhin's disenchantment with the KGB and his effort to to build his own secret archive of information, which he smuggled out ...
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Master and Margarita
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Mikhail Bulgakov
An ironic parable on power and its corruption, on good and evil, and on human frailty and the strength of love. The Devil appears in Moscow accompanied by a retinue of characters including a large vodka-drinking, pistol toting, black cat named Behemoth, the beautiful Margarita, and a writer known only as "The Master." These characters are joined ...
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Life and Fate
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Vasily Grossman
An epic tale of Soviet Union during the Second World War, centering on the Battle of Stalingrad. The author was arrested by the K.G.B. on the completion of this novel. It was smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm over twenty years later.
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The Secret Speech
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Tom Rob Smith
Smith's first novel, "Child 44," was one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year. Now the author returns with a new thriller set in the turmoil and upheaval of the post-Stalinist Soviet Union.
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Day Before Midnight
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Stephen Hunter
Welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban Maryland home and whisked to the South Mountain missile site, where paramilitary terrorists have taken over a top-secret nuclear facility. The commandos want Jack to cut through a half-ton titanium block to give them access to the launch button. Will Delta Force veteran Dick Puller be able to ...
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The Thirteenth Tribe
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Arthur Koestler
This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Ghengis Khan, but evidence indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed the cradle of Western Jewry.
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Russka: The Novel of Russia
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Edward Rutherfurd
The author of the phenomenally successful Sarum: The Novel of England now turns his remarkably vast talents to an even larger canvas. Spanning 1800 years of Russia's history, people, politics, and culture, this grand saga is as multifaceted as the country itself, as it chronicles the lives of four families who are divided by ethnicity but united ...
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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Graham T Allison
One of the most influental political science works written in the post World War II era, the original edition of Essence of Decision is a unique and fascinating examination of the pivotal event of the cold Cold War. Not simply revised, but completely re-written, the Second Edition of this classic text is a fresh reinterpretation of the theories ...
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Gulag: A History
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Anne Applebaum
The Gulag entered the world's historical consciousness in 1972, with the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic history of the Soviet camps, "The Gulag Archipelago." Applebaum has undertaken a fully documented history of the Soviet camp system, from its origins in the Russian Revolution to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Two 16 page ...
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Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count
A collection of short fiction by the distinguished Russian writer includes the story Alyosha the Pot, as well as such novellas as The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilych, Family Happiness, Master and Man, The Devil, The Kreutzer Sonata, Father Serguis, and Hadgi Maurat. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
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Dr. Orlando Figes
The award-winning author of "A Peoples Tragedy" and "Natashas Dance" has written this landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression.
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Vampire Armand
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Anne Rice
"The Vampire Chronicles" continue. With the body of Lestat lying comatose nearby, 500-year-old Armand, first introduced in "Interview with the Vampire", tells the story of his life: his childhood in Istanbul, his enslavement, both sexual and vampiric, to the ancient vampire Marius, and his devotion to his non-vampire children.
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
This intimate biography of Joseph Stalin is also a group portrait of Stalin and those around him during his 30-year rule of the Soviet Union--including Beria, Molotov, Stalin's wife, Nadya, and others in his court. It is thick with details of everyday life, and it is this detail that demythologizes the Soviet dictator, and which reveals his ...
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