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A reference work that thoroughly documents the extensive military history of the Islamic world between the 7th century and the present day. Military-political conflict-and the resulting factionalism, shifts in leadership…
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Both concise and wide-ranging, this encyclopedia covers massacres, atrocities, war crimes, and genocides, including acts of inhumanity on all continents; and serves as a reminder that lest we forget, history…
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Alexander Mikaberidze
The diary of Pavel Pushin, an officer of the Life Guard Semeyonovskii Regiment, covering the last three years of the Napoleonic Wars. It provides valuable insights into the characters of…
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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…
The fourth installment in this series is the memoirs of Moritz von Kotzebue, the son of the famous August von Kotzebue. After being captured at Polotsk in August 1812, Kotzebue…
A Georgian-language chronicle of twenty six Marshals of Empire created by Emperor Napoleon. The book explores their origins, early careers during the French Revolution, elevation under Napoleon's leadership and their…
Biography of Colonel Nicolas Tokhadze of the French Foreign Legion. Born and raised in Georgia, Tokhadze immigrated to France after the Bolshevik occupation of Georgia in 1921. Enrolling in the…
A Georgian-language translation of Napoleon Bonaparte's memoirs on the siege and capture of Toulon in 1793.
An indispensable reference on concentration camps, death camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and military prisons offering broad historical coverage as well as detailed analysis of the nature of captivity in modern conflict.
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Historical Dictionary of Georgia, Second Edition through its chronology, glossary, introduction, appendixes, maps, bibliography, and over 900 hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions and…
First full-length study of the climax of the 1812 campaign - the battle at the Berezina river. Graphic, hour-by-hour account of the extraordinary three-day battle. Focuses on the heroic efforts…
Russia played a decisive role in the Napoleonic wars and the success in the struggle against France allowed Russian leaders to shape the course of European history.Over the last…
First-hand accounts from Russian archives, never before published in English. Provides fresh insight into the great battles of Eylau and Friedland. Prequel to the author’s previous volumes on the campaigns…
Alexander Mikaberidze (Professor of History and Ruth Herrin Noel Endowed Chair, Professor of History and Ruth Herrin Noel Endowed Chair, Louisiana State University-Shreveport)
A full-life portrait of the man Tolstoy immortalized, Stalin lionized, and Russian history has manipulated and mythologized beyond recognition.Every Russian knows him purely by his patronym. He was the general…
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Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University at Shreveport)
The first truly global history of the Napoleonic Wars, arguably the first world war.
Professor Alexander Mikaberidze
A superbly illustrated epic of how Napoleon skilfully extracted his Grande Armee from the clutches of the pursuing Russian armies.
General Levin von Bennigsen’s memoirs offer unique insights into the epic confrontation between the French and Russians in Poland during the winter of 1806-1807, including the terrible carnage at Eylau…
Drawing on the latest research by a team of leading international scholars, Volume II explores the military history of the Napoleonic Wars. Comprehensive in its scope and reach, this volume…
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Volume 2 of General Levin von Bennigsen’s memoirs offer unique insights into the epic confrontation between the French and Russians in Poland during the spring and early summer of 1807…
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Alexander Mikaberidze, Peter G A Phillips
First English translation of Ilya Timofeyevich Radozhitskii's memoirs, a Russian artillery officer who served with distinction during the wars against Napoleon.
Alexander Mikaberidze,Peter G A Phillips
First English translation of Ilya Timofeyevich Radozhitskii’s memoirs, a Russian Artillerymen who served with distinction during the wars against Napoleon.
Alexander Mikaberidze, Louis-Victor-Leon Rochechouart
The fifth installment in the "Russian Voice of the Napoleonic Wars" series is the memoirs of Louis-Victor-Leon de Rochechouart, the scion of an eminent French noble family who fled his…
Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky
The only publicly available translation into English of Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky’s official history of the Russian involvement in the fighting against Napoleon’s France in 1805, during the War of the Third Coalition.