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The Great Game was the epic stand-off between the two superpowers of the nineteenth century--Victorian Britain and... more

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  The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)

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  • Posted:Aug-03-2009

  • A definitive work
  • A literary style of writing makes this a fast-paced yet historically packed summary of a long history for the control of south central Asia. The context of this history on current events is...
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  • More Tedium From Peter Hopkirk
  • "Reads like a novel" Come on, folks! The yellow pages of any phone book are far more exciting. This text takes a subject of great potential, & reduces it to the dried up dust of a Central Asian...
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  • the english version of the great game
  • This book describes a geographical area and historical period not well known to a majority of Italian readers. For this reason its recent translation and pubblication for the Italian Adelphi...
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To what extent did America?s best intelligence analysts grasp the rising threat of Islamist radicalism? Who tried... more

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  Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion...

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  • Essential with THE LAST PHARAOH
  • Essential with THE LAST PHARAOH in order to understand how America is being underminded by its own so called allies such in Egypt. It was on eof the Black Holes and rife with torture. Unbelievable....
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  • Posted:May-16-2009

  • Hard reading
  • Hard book to read. Author uses a lot of big words that were unnecessary, making the reading go really slow. Not like other books of it's kind, where you can't put them down because they are so...
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  • Posted:Jun-22-2008

  • Factually Incorrect
  • The only way this book would score more than one star is if people buy it as a work of fiction. It is riddled with factual holes and just plain wrong information, I don't know if this was by design...
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The unique, gripping account of the perilous showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the... more

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  Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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  • Thirteen Days: Cuban Missile Crisis, by Robert Kennedy
  • Read the book several years ago and was convinced that the Russian ships turned around because they
    were carrying the nuclear warheads that the Cuban Missiles were lacking. US had would have...
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  • Posted:Oct-31-2005

  • Some insight, some disappointment
  • I was looking forward to reading this book on what I thought would be a keen insider's look at the Cuban missile crisis, and was somewhat disappointed. I realize that RFK was not able to complete...
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  • The Kennedy's as saviors....
  • RFK's biased account of the 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis is so completely one sided that one can hardly not think of it as a work of fiction. He and his brother are presented as saviors,...
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2007"A tremendous achievement."--The Sunday Times (London)The Whisperers is a... more

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  The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

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  • Posted:Jan-26-2009

  • Required Reading
  • Stunning, meticulous, profoundly disturbing, and an invaluable resource to assure mankind is reminded of its evil capacities
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  • Posted:Oct-04-2008

  • GOOD JOURNALISM, BAD HISTORY
  • This book cannot be classified as history.To write something based mostly on a myriad of interviews does not qualify it under the category of scientific research.It distorts and minimizes the...
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When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, few experts believed the fledgling Mujahideen resistance movement... more

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  Afghan Guerrilla Warfare: In the Words of the Mujahideen Fighters

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  • The forest for the trees
  • When I was a Grunt, I picked this book up between my first and second tour in Iraq. Unfortunately, it was not as helpful as I would have hoped - we wound up in a small city and the terrain was...
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  • Afghan Guerrilla Warfare
  • Interesting view of the war against the inflexible Soviet war machine. The present day Taliban will find NATO forces extremely more flexible and lethal.
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  • Posted:Nov-13-2002

  • Not original. Free on the internet. Not very useful.
  • I had already downloaded "The Other Side of the Mountain" and read it. Nowhere on this site is it mentioned that this book is simply a reprinting of that "FREE" work. It was not even spell...
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A transcendent history/memoir of one family?s always passionate, sometimes tragic connection to Russia.On a midsummer... more

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  Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival

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  • Posted:Jan-16-2009

  • Unwrapping the enigma
  • Sometimes the best way to understand a place as different as Russia is to read about a few of the common people and not the Great Men who shaped its history. It's certainly easier.
    
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  • Posted:Oct-23-2008

  • Moving Memoir
  • As memoirs go, this chronicle of 3 generations of a Russian family allmost destroyed by Stalin's purges is a good one. Unfortunately, the most riveting parts of the tale occur in the first part of...
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  • Posted:Sep-18-2008

  • Just watch Eastern Promises.
  • Stalin's Children is the like listening to some guy whose family has an interesting history -- but as an enlightening narrative of Soviet Russia it is pretty ho-hum. I was bored after page 30 (big...
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From the managing editor of the Washington Post, a news-breaking account of the CIA's involvement in the covert wars... more

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  Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion...

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  • Posted:May-16-2009

  • Hard reading
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  • Posted:Jun-22-2008

  • Factually Incorrect
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From an award-winning 60 Minutes reporter comes the extraordinary story of the largest and most successful CIA... more

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  Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History

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  • Posted:Jul-23-2009

  • Gonzo, Important, and LONG
  • It has happened to me a few times in life that I've gotten into a car as a passenger, only to find out within minutes that the driver was reckless, intoxicated, or both. The subsequent ride...
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  • Posted:Apr-27-2009

  • Interesting, but way too long
  • This is a very interesting book filled with an insiders look into the CIA and covert operations. That said, it was hard for me - a book worm - to finish this book because it kept meandering all...
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  • Posted:Jul-22-2008

  • Poorly written, excrutiatingly detailed
  • This book was really interesting at first, but I couldn't keep reading beyond a few hundred pages. The author keeps saying the same things over and over and over again (I got it, Charlie Wilson...
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It is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion,... more

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  A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924

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  • Posted:Jul-11-2009

  • For serious history buffs
  • A People's Tragedy is an extraordinary book, and I highly recommend it. Nevertheless, I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 simply because my eyes glazed over some of the political text. I'm more keen on...
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  • Posted:Feb-27-2008

  • Worthy effort though flawed
  • There are several problems with this overall well-executed tome that have been pointed out by others, but what I particularly took exception to was the evident eagerness to excuse bloodlust by the...
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  • Posted:Nov-04-1999

  • A complicated review- but Figes still fails
  • I picked this book up for three bucks in a co-op. I got my money's worth, if barely.

    What I do like about this book is it makes the details of the disaster of Soviet Communism come alive. It...

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Immense in scope, ferocious in nature, and epic in consequence, the Battle of Kursk witnessed (at Prokhorovka) one of... more

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  The Battle of Kursk

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  • Posted:Jun-10-2009

  • Very Good coverage of the tank battles near Prokhororovka
  • The war for Hitler and his Allies had been deteriorating since Stalingrad and Hitler had to have a major victory to keep his coalition together. Though he wasn't convinced that Citadel would be...
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  • Posted:Mar-01-2006

  • Rough riding but informative, 2.5 stars.
  • I agree with another poster who said this book is a bombardment of facts and figures without much readability. If you are looking for facts and figures, check it out; if you are looking for...
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Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg and culminating with the Soviet regime, Figes... more

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  Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

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  • Posted:Sep-21-2009

  • The Press doesn't Get Religion? Just meet the Historians.
  • Yet another cultural history of Russia (the other being The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture) that does not even get elementary things correct about the religion shared...
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  • Not sure about the title?
  • I ordered this at the same time as Land of the Firedbird, another book about Russia, and I liked the latter better.
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  • Natasha's Dance
  • I'm still in the middle of this thick book, and I find it fascinating--but my Russian colleagues tell me is it not altogether trustworthy in its portrayal of Russian history and culture, so I'm...
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The "dean of Cold War historians" (The New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the global... more

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  The Cold War: A New History

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  • Posted:Aug-24-2009

  • Reasonable Approach to a Difficult Project
  • In the introduction, Gaddis sets the context for this book: the topic is not familiar to young people, and various students and others familiar with his scholarship wished for a much shorter, more...
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  • A Well Considered History of the Cold War
  • John Lewis Gaddis' book "The Cold War, A New History" accomplishes what it sets out to do very nicely- provide a general overview of the events, personalities, and issues at stake in the US-USSR...
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  • Only partially successful
  • I picked up "The Cold War: a New History" on my way to an airport and read it over several days and several flights. As I tend to do, immediately after purchasing it I put a privacy cover over the...
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The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. Nearly three... more

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  The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad

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  • The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad is a harrowing and horrible trip to the lowest circle of Dantean Hell
  • The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad was published in 1969 to wide acclaim. It is today considered the definitive work on the siege of the Northern Palymyra "Leningrad (now know as St...
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  • A Classic Shows its Age
  • Straight up, the Siege of Leningrad lasted either 872 or 880 days, depending on whether you begin the count from the German capture of Mga or Shlissel'burg, not 900 days. I guess "The 880 Days"...
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  • Posted:Nov-14-2006

  • the 900 days;
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    St. Petersburg in the past 3 years, both guides highly recommended this book. It is incredibly well written, both the background leading up to the atack as well as the...
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A DANGEROUS NEW TWIST IN THE GREAT GAME In this gripping narrative Peter Hopkirk tells how Lenin and his... more

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  Setting the East Ablaze: Lenins Dream of an Empire in Asia (Kodansha Globe)

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  • The Great Game between the World Wars
  • This is another of Peter Hopkirk's wonderful books about Central Asia, mostly dealing with players in the Great Game. This volume takes up the story after World War One, when the Bolsheviks decided...
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  • Carries the story on from The Great Game--but not as well
  • Hopkirk is a mater story teller. Anyone who cares about how Afghanistan and the surrounding countries ended up the way they did must read The Great Game--Hopkirk's gripping description of the...
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Mr. Pipes writes trenchantly, and at times superbly....No single volume known to me even begins to cater so... more

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  The Russian Revolution

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  • Complete History of The Russian Revolution (Hostile Takeover)
  • I must first say that I seriously doubt that anyone that has a negative review of this book actually purchased it and read it. The 'Revolution' was a hostile takeover by the Russian Intelligentsia...
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  • Outdated History
  • Like many others in this volume, the very first sentence of this book claiming it to be "the first attempt in any language to present a comprehensive view of the Russian Revolution" is false....
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  • A biased but not unworthy book.
  • In general this is a good and well documented book. Severely critical of the Bolshevik philosophy and practice, I found parts of the first six chapters really annoying due to the contempt the...
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  Roots of the Russian Language: An Elementary Guide to Wordbuilding (NTC Russian Series)

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  • A complete waste, I sent my copy back
  • The book is very poorly printed. It appears to be a 3rd or 4th generation photocopy, making it painful to read. I didn't find the book to be at all useful for learning Russian in any case. I...
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  • Learning Tool -- Somewhat, But More So, Purusing Roots Can Just Be Fun -- in any language
  • The reviewer who claimed Russian has more roots than any other language -- no, not really. English has roots (morphemes) for almost all our words too; it's just that English morphemes can have...
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  • Roots of the Russian Language
  • It's a good book if you know a little russian, but want to improve your knowledge of the language more.
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  A History of Russia: Combined Volume

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  • Easy read text book
  • This is a good book for those who prefer an easy-to-read book on history... or for those who are interested but easily bored at the thought of opening a history book. The chapters are not...
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  • Miserable writing and poor factual presentation
  • I am at a loss to explain the five-star reviews of this book. It is one of the most poorly written history books I have ever read. Sentences and facts are constantly qualified, as if the author...
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  • Good text for general reader.
  • My Russian history prof. in college used this book because, "It was the only one he could get students to read, although it doesn't really reach the scholarly level of the likes of Kliuchevskii."...
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In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of... more

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  Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

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  • Now I clearly understood why URSS fell so ignominously
  • A great fresco of the dramatic death of the communist URSS. The author lived as a correspondant in moscow for many years during the final years of the cold war and describes the tragic living...
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  • Shallow and sensationalist, but thorough
  • David Remnick's "Lenin's Tomb" is a book about the journalist's experiences just before and during the collapse of the USSR at the end of the 1980s. Using a chronological overview, Remnick...
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  • horror stories from a Cold War childhood
  • Wouldn't it be great if everything the Department of Education decided American children should learn in school about the U.S.'s international rivals were true? This book reminded me of my...
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  The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism

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  • Stylish and Urgent
  • When Communism came crashing down alongside the Iron Curtain at the turn of the 1990s, it left a changed Eastern Europe to sift through the debris. Former Soviet Bloc countries found themselves...
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  • Slow Start, but smooths out nicely.
  • Rosenberg's book is divided into 3 sections, each dealing with a newly democratic nation. The first section analyzing Czechoslovakia and the Stb starts off extrememly slow, and almost derailed me...
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  • Less than insightful bk written by a linguistic incompetent
  • I read only the German section because that is the only part I am competent to remark on. I find it telling that she admits she doesn't speak any of the languages of the people she is writing...
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  The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB

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  • The Mitrokhin Archive
  • An amazing story - be sure to get the second book "The World was Going Our Way." It is just as fascinating, but even more readable.
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  • The KGB Archives
  • Mitrokhin & Andrews' book is just as described: an archive of information. As such, it is packed with information that the authors have tried to organize into something of a dry narrative. That...
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  • Better read than heard
  • A lot of detail, and all of it good information. Unfortunately it should not be presented in audio format without a rewrite. It gets difficult when listening to the tape while navigating traffic...
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