The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs

The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the RomanovsDescription By Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Hardcover Elegantly written and magisterially researched (Robert Service, author of A History of Modern Russia), the definitive story behind the self destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the worlds foremost expert When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest. Though Nicholass life is often described as tragic, it was not fate

One of the most famous battles in history

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the Battle of Arras

The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets in Michael Korda’s epic Muse of Fire

key sections from this magisterial work are published as individual paperbacks

Intermingled with details of how they navigate daily life in the putrefied atmosphere of the trenches are both harrowing descriptions and a political

and utterly unique episode in the life of Maisie Dobbs

was sophisticated and constantly evolving

by Amy Dockser Marcus

in which the US First Army and (eventually) the US Second Army would drive north between the Argonne Forest and the Meuse river towards Sedan

most savage hours of the fight against Germany

rich in detail