Honoured and advanced by his new patron, the dashing Emperor Alexander, Yermolov then made rapid progress.
Yermolov is a legend in Russia. A man who rose from obscurity to command armies and conquer provinces, he was the epitome of a military man of action. To his...
Delo 4135: Dossier with printed proclamations and orders. Published Material Alison, Archibald, Travels in France, during the years 1814-15: Comprising a residence at Paris during the stay of the allied armies, and atAix, ...
This book seeks to fill this gap by providing previously unavailable memoirs of Russian participants using documents show the other side, providing insight on the Russian leadership and what a soldier experienced as he progressed towards ...
The fourth installment in this series is the memoirs of Moritz von Kotzebue, the son of the famous August von Kotzebue.
The book discusses the two wars (1994-96 and 1999 to date), the intervening truce and shows how a downward spiral of violence has led to a mutually-damaging impasse from which neither side has been able to remove itself.
Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely associated with the era of the Napoleonic Wars.
This book provides a new biography of the field marshal, examining his personal life and military/diplomatic accomplishments, and relying on a wide range of primary and secondary sources as well as Russian archival material.
The fifth installment in the ?Russian Voice of the Napoleonic Wars? series is the memoirs of Louis-Victor-L?on de Rochechouart, the scion of an eminent French noble family who fled his native land during the French Revolution and served in ...
Drawing on the work of Charles Tilly, Immanuel Wallerstein, and, of course, Bourdieu, Derluguian's explanation of the recent ethnic wars and terrorist acts in Russia succeeds in illuminating the role of human agency in shaping history.
The Memoirs of General Wrangel: The Last Commander-in-chief of the Russian National Army