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Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine by Anna Reid
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category
A classic and vivid history of Ukraine, fully updated to cover the Euromaidan Revolution in 2014 and ongoing crisis in the Donbass. Centre of the first great Slav civilisation in the tenth century, then divided between warring neighbours for a millennium, Ukraine finally won independence with the collap ...Show more
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine by Anna Reid
$29.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
FULLY UPDATED'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture'INDEPENDENT. Flat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders, for centuries Ukraine was fought over by more powerful neighbours. Though its modern national movement dates back to the early ninet ...Show more
Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941-44 by Anna Reid
$60.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not be lifted for two and a half years and during the 872 days of blockade and bombardment as many as two million Soviet lives wou ...Show more
Leningrad: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44 by Anna Reid
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, he intended to capture Leningrad before turning on Moscow. Soviet resistance forced him to change tactics: with his forward troops only thirty kilometres from the city's historic centre, he decided instead to starve it out. Using newly available diarie ...Show more
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