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1	A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East more books like this by David Fromkin add to wishlist 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, ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £12.32! \| first editions
2	Child 44 more books like this by Tom Rob Smith add to wishlist 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 see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.06! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The charm school more books like this by Nelson DeMille add to wishlist An American tourist unwittingly picks up an escaped prisoner of war on the road in Russia and gets caught in an international spy web. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Crime and Punishment more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky add to wishlist 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. ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Anna Karenina more books like this by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.58! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis more books like this by Robert F Kennedy add to wishlist 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. see all copies from £5.26! new only from £8.47! \| first editions
7	The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation more books like this by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn add to wishlist Solzhenitsyn's gripping epic masterpiece, the searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression, in one abridged volume, authorized by the author see all copies from £4.95! new only from £9.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Last of the Breed more books like this by Louis L'Amour add to wishlist 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. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £2.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	War & Peace more books like this by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Peter the Great more books like this by Robert K Massie add to wishlist "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 ... see all copies from £4.94! new only from £7.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich more books like this by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.53! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Brothers Karamazov more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £1.66! new only from £1.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB more books like this by Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £3.08! new only from £7.83! \| first editions
14 view cover	Master and Margarita more books like this by Mikhail Bulgakov add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £2.36! new only from £5.27! \| first editions
15 view cover	Life and Fate more books like this by Vasily Grossman add to wishlist 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. see all copies from £4.27! new only from £7.72! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Secret Speech more books like this by Tom Rob Smith add to wishlist 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. see all copies from £3.06! new only from £9.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Day Before Midnight more books like this by Stephen Hunter add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The Thirteenth Tribe more books like this by Arthur Koestler add to wishlist 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. see all copies from £6.91! new only from £6.91! \| first editions
19 view cover	Russka: The Novel of Russia more books like this by Edward Rutherfurd add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
20 view cover	Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis more books like this by Graham T Allison add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £1.97! new only from £14.43! \| first editions
21 view cover	Gulag: A History more books like this by Anne Applebaum add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.84! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy more books like this by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count add to wishlist 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. see all copies from £4.05! new only from £6.53! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia more books like this by Dr. Orlando Figes add to wishlist 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. see all copies from £8.05! new only from £10.76! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Vampire Armand more books like this by Anne Rice add to wishlist "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. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.72! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar more books like this by Simon Sebag Montefiore add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £4.07! new only from £7.59! \| first editions

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