Search Results: HISTORY / Europe / Eastern from William Robertson

Hong Kong: APA , 1993. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good/-. Part of the lavishly illustrated Insight Guides series. Everything you've ever wanted to know, or might need to know, about travel to, and within, the newly independent Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. Size, 22 x 15cm, 430 pages, illustrated throughout with colour photos and maps. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings, pictorial laminated card covers in Very Good condition. Internally, Very Good: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings. Exceptional condition for ex-library example.

London: BCA, 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. London: BCA, 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardback. Reprint. VG+/VG A highly illustrated history of the Napoleonic Wars. The author weaves together military, naval, economic and diplomatic strands to provide a comprehensive understanding of these times. These were wars in which every nation in Europe (bar tiny Montenegro) were involved at some stage, with battles fought from Java in the east to Buenos Aires in the west; from Finland in the North to Cape Town in the south. At sea, naval engagements took place in every ocean of the world, making the Napoleonic Wars the first truly global conflict. A very readable and insightful account of this monumental period of European history. Contains 232 pages, 25.5 x 19.5cm, with over 100 b&w, and 13 colour, illustrations, including contemporary battle plans plus seven maps. Blue cloth boards in illustrated, price-clipped dust jacket showing slight shelf wear, otherwise… Read More

London: Secker & Warburg , 1992. Hardcover. Fair/very good. Travelling at first by car and, when that disintegrates, by any means at hand, the author - an adventurous, irreverant Muscovite - reveals a Soviet Union few Western travellers have ever seen; a country on the edge of civil war, where ethnic tensions are leading increasingly to violence and gangs of young thugs terrorise outsiders like himself. As he travels - through Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenia and Azerbaijan - he visits new towns and old haunts, friends and family, and poets, artists and scholars who have become politicians in the newly politicised nation. The result is a book rich in history, full of marvellous anecdotes, a compelling portrait of an empire on the edge of disintegration. Size, 24 x 155cm, 431 pages, 1 map. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Black cloth boards in very good pictorial dust jacket. Internally, Fair-to-Good: pages yellowing slightly, but overall are clean and unmarked in… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1992. First UK edition. Hardcover. Good/very good. The dramatic and largely unknown story of the rescue of more than 2-million Jews from Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East since World War II. Provides in-depth accounts of missions such as Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen), Operation Framework (Morocco), Operation Moses (Ethiopia) and the network that helped Jews - with Kurdish aid - escape from Iran after Khomeini's Islamic revolution in 1979. Here are the backroom details of the money-for-blood deals made with Adolph Eichmann, Nicolae Ceaucescu and Saddam Hussein. The author combines narrative history with investigative journalism at its best, illuminating a remarkable saga that is both compellingly told and of outstanding importance to 20th Century history. Size, 24 x 16cm, 328 pages, 8 pages of b&w photos and 2 maps. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Black cloth boards in very good illustrated dust jacket. Internally, good: hint of… Read More

London: HarperCollins , 1992. Hardcover. Good/good. With the unlikely cast of a Tamworth pig, a coffin, two elderly aunts and a battered Trabant, the author creates a fantastic tableau that embraces the horrors, betrayals and ironies of modern East European history. Humerous and black, touched with the surreal and the farcical, this is an exceptionally vivid story of a journey from the Baltic to the Black Sea, between Berlin and Moscow, through an Eastern Europe divested of fear and free to face its past. Grows in stature with every page. Size, 24 x 16cm, 211 pages, maps on endpapers. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Blue cloth boards in good illustrated dust jacket. Internally, good: generally clean and unmarked in sound bindings.

London: Arms&Armour, 1988. Hardcover. Good/good. One of the more memorable facets of the Cold War were the regular large-scale field training excercises, or war games, conducted by NATO in Europe. In 1987 the authors were given unprecedented access to exercise Certain Strike, the largest event of its kind since WWII, involving some 78,300 NATO soldiers. Their account and photographs give a real sense of why and how such excercises are planned and conducted - Who sets the parameters? Who devises the scenario? How do the troops and their equipment find their way to the battlefield? How are advanced weapons proved and deployed without using live ammunition? How is a kill registered? Who decides who has won? This book aims to answer these questions and to show how international agreements allow Eastern Bloc observers to attend the excercises, how modern technology is changing the face of war games, and how other countries conduct these tests themselves. A fascinating read for all military… Read More

London: BBC Worldwide, 1999. Hardcover. Good/very good. 1100g. Good+/Very Good Jacket. Published to accompany the BBC TV series of the same name. Detailed examination of the war on the Eastern Front between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union - a conflict which took more than 30-million lives and unleashed the Holocaust against the Jews. It played a major part in determining the outcome of World War II and shaped the face of Europe in a Cold War which lasted for the next 45-years. The author has made great use of previously unseen material, made available since the fall of Communism, to re-tell the story of this most barbaric theatre of WWII. Contains 255 pages, illustrated throughout with colour and b&w photos. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Black cloth boards in very good pictorial dust jacket. Internally, good: generally clean and unmarked in excellent bindings.