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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
430 pages
Description
"Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold. Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevikcoup in October, Petrograd (the former St. Petersburg) was in turmoil--felt nowhere more keenly than on the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt. There, the foreign visitors who filled hotels, clubs, bars...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war--and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated. Serhii Plokhy, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War, offers a definitive account of this conflict, its origins, course, and the already...
Author
Publisher
Books on tape
Pub. Date
2014, ©2014
Physical Desc
14 CDs ( min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recounts the ill-fated nineteenth-century naval expedition to the North Pole under the leadership of George Washington De Long that resulted in the sinking of the USS Jeannette and the crew's epic struggle for survival in the harsh and unforgiving Arcticenvironment.
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xviii, 587 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering in Hitler's and Stalin's camps, and the near-miraculous survival and rescue of the author's parents who met after the war. Daniel Finkelstein's grandfather Alfred Wiener was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of the impending Holocaust and became an archivist of Nazi...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Sigrid MacRae never knew her father, until a trove of letters revealed not only him, but also the singular story of her parents' intercontinental love affair. While visiting Paris in 1927, her American mother, Aimée, raised in a wealthy Connecticut family, falls in love with a charming, sophisticated Baltic German baron, a penniless exile of the Russian revolution. They marry. But the harsh reality of post-World War I Germany is inescapable: a bleak...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"With vivid storytelling and access to insider accounts, Weiner sets out to trace the roots of Russian-American political warfare--conflict waged without weapons--over the last seven decades to understand how a president landed in the White House with the help of an expansive, covert Russian campaign. Russia's modern revival of Soviet-era intelligence operations constitutes one of the most significant threats to democracy in the United States and...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
191 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
"In the years following the Civil War, "Arctic fever" gripped the American public, fueled by myths of a fertile, tropical sea at the top of the world. Several explorers attempted to find a route to the North Pole, but none succeeded. Bound by Ice follows the journey of George Washington De Long and the crew of the Jeannette, who departed San Francisco in the summer of 1879 hoping to find a route to the North Pole. However, in mid-September the ship...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
611 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Description
"Imperial, communist or autocratic, Russia has been-and remains-a towering and intimidating neighbor. Whether it is North Korea in the Far East through the former Soviet republics in Asia and the Caucasus, or countries on the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea. What would it be like to traverse the entirety of the Russian periphery to examine its effects on those closest to her? An astute and brilliant combination of lyric travel writing and modern...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Description
"While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked open the secret Soviet military research establishment,...
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