Category: Russia

A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner One of NPR's Best Books of 2019 Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history's w...
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

By: Massie, Robert K.

Price: $13.20

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks : September 2012

Seller ID: 190829

ISBN-13: 9780345408778

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

" A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller."--The Wall Street Journal The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination. For thirty-four years, the government, foreign policy, cultural develop...
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The Russian War: 1941-1945

By: Mrazkova, Daniela

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Dorset Pr : January 1987

Seller ID: 192402

ISBN-13: 9780880290845

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Putin

By: Short, Philip

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. : July 2022

Seller ID: 191636

ISBN-13: 9781627793667

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Litvinenko File

By: Sixsmith, Martin

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Pan Macmillan : January 2008

Seller ID: 191041

ISBN-13: 9780330454131

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

On 7 December 2006, in a Highgate Cemetery drenched with London rain, a Russian was buried within a stone's throw of the grave of Karl Marx. He was Alexander Litvinenko, Sasha to his friends, a boy from the deep Russian provinces who rose through the ranks of the world's most feared security service. Litvinenko was the man who denounced murder and corruption in the Russian government, fled from the wrath of the Kremlin, came to London and took the shilling of Moscow's avowed enemy. Now he was a martyr, condemned by foes unknown to an agonised death in a hospital bed thousands of miles from hom...
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