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RUSSIAN RIVER CRUISE
Worth Looking For
An Illustrated History of the First World War
• John Keegan
HISTORY •
2001 •
HARD COVER
• 448 PAGES
• COMING IN
An illustrated edition of Keegan's outstanding history of the Great War, considerably enhanced by his selection of almost 500 photographs, maps, drawings and illustrations. The visuals clarify and augment his wide-ranging narrative of the origins, battles and consequences of WWI.
(WAR16, $50.00) |
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The Hermitage, Masterpieces
• Scala Masterpieces
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 157 PAGES
• COMING IN
A slim guide to the extraordinary collection, this little book, featuring 80 color reproductions, is an excellent overview of what to see at the Hermitage.
(RUS90, $29.95) |
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Open Lands, Travels Through Russia's Once Forbidden Places
• Mark Taplin
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 376 PAGES
• COMING IN
An information officer posted at the U.S. embassy in Moscow in 1992, Taplin jumped at the chance to visit the regions of Russia suddenly thrown open to the West. Off he goes to gulags, Siberian archipelagos, Kamchatka and Vladivostok in this witty travelogue that mixes journalism, social commentary and history.
(RUS62, $18.00) |
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