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The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian ... 1 review
Nadezhda Durova, Mary Fleming Zirin
Indiana University Press, 1989
Rare Memoir of a Female Soldier
Very few of the historical women who disguised themselves as men to become soldiers have told their adventures in their own words. Nadezhda Durova was a minor noblewoman who spent seven years in the Russian cavalry during the Napoleonic wars and earned the distinguished cross of St. George. Years ...
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The Wolves of Islam: Russia and the Faces of Chechen Terror 9 reviews
Paul Murphy
Potomac Books Inc., 2004
Outstanding
+ Do Wolves eat their young?
+ Excellent Book on Chechen Terrorism
Rare is the book or author who understands the concept of the perpetual jihad. But Paul Murphy, who uses that term in his preface, gets it. The jihad is not about land or politics, but about obtaining perpetual Islamic rule and law worldwide. Chechens like to compare their national character to the ...
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The Living and the Dead 3 reviews
Konstantin Mikha-Ilovich Simonov
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1968
WWII THE RUSSIAN POINT OF VIEW
+ One of the Best
+ AKA "Victims and Heroes"
Siminov held off publishing this book until after the death of Stalin. It really takes an Eastern European author to torture a character. This books shows the qualities of the Red Army Soldier that allowed him to defeat the Nazis. One must be able to look past the obvious communist propoganda ...
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Commissar 2 reviews
Nonna Mordyukova, Rolan Bykov
Kino Video, 2000
Masterpiece, forbidden for 20 years
+ A Tale From The Russian Civil War
During the russian civil war, the soviets occupy the Ukraine. Sometimes the "whites" move forward, killing and expulsing the population, sometimes the Ukrainians strike back. Destroyed villages, deserted homes, fortified houses where the inhabitants take shelter behind bullet-riddled walls. The ...
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Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad88 reviews
William Craig
Konecky & Konecky, 2001
The was fasincating read!
+ Accessible war history, keenly told
+ Everyone should read this book.
+ As told by those who were there!
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My Name Is Ivan6 reviews
Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov
Fox Lorber, 1997
Ivan's File
+ What can I say?
+ Who's in a Bunker?
+ Powerful and dramatic, but short of masterpiece status
+ Ivan's Childhood
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Afghanistan: Soviet Vietnam52 reviews
Vladislav Tamarov
Mercury House, 1992
A memoir you will NEVER forget!
+ Russian dispatches from Afghanistan.
+ Afghanistan
+ a must for anyone interested in Afghan military history
+ The Real Thing
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The Iron Flood 1 review
Alexander Seravimovich, A. Kokorin, ...
University Press of the Pacific, 2001
Great Socialist realism ... but?
'The Iron Flood' is a harsh story. It is set during the Civil War, and depicts the accomplishment of an impossible task. A great number of Red soldiers and their families are cut off from their main forces, and set out to break through the surrounding White armies to join them. A heroic march ...
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Operation Overflight: The U-2 spy pilot tells his story for the first time4 reviews
Francis Gary Powers, Curt Gentry
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970
Riveting memoir and prison diary
+ The Little Known Story of a Great Patriot
+ The Third Point
+ Who mourns for Francis Gary Powers?
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Reds106 reviews
Beatty, Keaton
Paramount, 1998
The most nuanced, detailed, politically sophisticated movie on the Russian Revolution ever
+ One of few
+ good acting, good film.
+ Well Done Docudrama
+ A better movie now than when it was made -- we know more
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Prisoner of the Mountains33 reviews
Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr.
MGM (Video & DVD), 2000
A Tragic and Triumpante Forgien Film!
+ Compelling view of the Russian war in Chechnya during the 90s
+ An unlikely war film
+ Hey look! A war movie I like!
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Strike8 reviews
Mikhail Gomorov, M. Mamin
Kino Video, 2000
The auspicious film debut of director Sergei M. Eisenstein
+ All very good
+ Strike
If the quick and easy label is to call Sergei Eisenstein the Orson Welles of Soviet cinema, chronology notwithstanding, then "Strike" ("Stachka") is the great director's "Citizen Kane." This comparison would be dictated not by the greatness of this 1924 silent film, but rather by the fact "Strike" ...
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Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story52 reviews
Vladislav Tamarov
Ten Speed Press, 2001
A memoir you will NEVER forget!
+ Russian dispatches from Afghanistan.
+ Afghanistan
+ a must for anyone interested in Afghan military history
+ The Real Thing
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The Simple Sounds of Freedom : The True Story of the Only Soldier to Fight for Both America and the Soviet ...6 reviews
Thomas H. Taylor
Random House, 2002
amerikanski tovarisch!
+ Excellent Writing
+ A Most Interesting Story
+ Wonderful Story
+ Curahee all over again!
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Burnt by the Sun70 reviews
Nino Abuladze, T. Akopova
Sony Pictures, 1996
Watch it over and over
+ Most enjoyable....
+ burnt by the fire of the USSR revolution
+ Incredible Movie
+ A Great Tragic Masterpiece by Mikhalkov
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Russia at War: 1941-194522 reviews
Alexander Werth
Basic Books, 1999
Monumental
+ A superb one-volume history of the Eastern Front.
+ Unputdownable!!!
+ Russia at War
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The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad (A Da Capo Paperback)27 reviews
Harrison E. Salisbury
Da Capo Press, 1985
Superb example of how history should be written
+ Informative, Readable, Superb
+ Surviving the Deadliest Battle in Human History
Salisbury gave us a monumental work of history: not just in scope, but in depth. This is a book which entwines the epic story with the human story, basing both on the kind of scholarship too few writers are dedicated enough to accomplish. I wrote a well-received history on the early satellites ...
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The Red and the White12 reviews
József Madaras, Tibor Molnár
Kino Video, 2000
Clearly Portrays the Dehumanization and Senselessness of War
+ Back and forth. Back and forth.
+ The Most Important Hungarian Film Ever!
Being filmed in black and white, the drama is even more intense as the long shots of the camera hone the viewer's eye to a lovely landscape where the onion-domed spires of a monastery come into view. The first scenes begin in the yard of the Russian monastery. The camera captures different views of ...
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Beast (1988)81 reviews
George Dzundza, Jason Patric
Sony Pictures, 2000
A War Film Ahead of Its Time
+ A Well-told Story
+ The Beast
+ underated film
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The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming94 reviews
Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint
MGM (Video & DVD), 1994
"Emergency, Emergency, Everybody To Get From Street!"
+ One of the all time Greats!!
+ "Emergency! Emergency! Everybody to get from street!"
+ The Russians are Coming,The Russians are coming
+ Omigosh! Could This Really Happen???
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