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The Cossacks and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

8 reviews
Leo Tolstoy

Penguin Classics, 2007

"As one needs nothing oneself, why not live for others?": Olenin's epiphany
In the middle of _The Cossacks_, Dmitri Olenin, a young Russian cadet reflects joyfully, "Happiness is to live for others. How clear it is!," while being mercilessly bitten by mosquitos during a deer hunt. Despite the fact that his "whole body [is] consumed by a consuming itch," Olenin revels in the beauties of bountiful nature. It is almost as if he gives himself up to the mosquitos, whom he ...

The Cossacks 1799-1815 (Warrior)
Laurence Spring

Osprey Publishing, 2003

During the Napoleonic Wars, the Cossacks were Russia's unique and plentiful supply of irregular cavalry. They were employed as skirmishers, raiders and scouts, and their tactics of harassment and harrying caused great problems for Napoleon's Grand Armée as it retreated through Russia in 1812. This title shows how, although labelled as rapacious, lascivious, mercenary and ill-disciplined on the field by their detractors, they laid claim to being ...

Nestor Makhno-Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921

3 reviews
Alexandre Skirda

AK Press, 2003

Very Thorough, well-sourced, informative
This is a very thorough account of the years 1917-21 Ukraine, and the attempts of Nestor Makno and his anarchist populist army to liberate their country from first, the czarist, counter-revolutionary ("white") army, and then the traitorous Bolsheviks, who attacked the "Maknovites" from behind, (after having taken control of the Revolution, strangling it to death in the name of "the international ...

The Cossacks - A Tale by Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy

Tark Classic Fiction, 2008

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Under the St. Andrew's Cross: Russian & Cossack Volunteers in World War II, 1941-1945

3 reviews
Peter J. Huxley-Blythe

Europa Books Inc., 2004

Where we fear to tread
This book is study of a very obscure chapter of World War 2. The Cossacks of Russia served both sides in the Russo-German conflict, so it was very similar to our own Civil War where brother did fight brother. The Cossacks, like many other national groups within the Soviet Union, joined the Germans to fight for their own place as they always had under the Tsars. Peter Huxley-Blythe, who earlier ...

The Cossacks

1 review
Shane O'Rourke

Manchester University Press, 2008

a great story
O'Rourke has managed to take a confusing part of Russian history and not only clarify it but turn in into a compelling story. The book brings to life in vivid detail some of the most important Russian and Ukrainian Folk heros. It read like a novel; I couldn't put it down.

Wolf of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume One (Complete Cossack Adventures)

7 reviews
Harold Lamb

Bison Books, 2006

Still very, very good.
I bought this book (and the companion volume) after reading some of Lamb's work in the 'Flashing Swords' ezine and anthology from Pitch-Black Press (Sages and Swords). I'd never heard of Lamb before--and now I've read his work, I'm stumped if I know why that is. Everything that's good about adventure fiction is in this book: strong and cunning protagonists, treacherous villains, and exotic ...

The Cowboy and the Cossack

27 reviews
Clair Huffaker

Buccaneer Books, 1992

The Cowboy and the Cossack
I'm a voracious reader (not particularly of Westerns) and this book, which I read 15 years ago remains as one of my all time favorites. If any book deserves to be reprinted, it is this one! A must read!

Pannwitz's Cossacks
Francois De Lannoy

Heimdal, 2001

Pannewitz's Cossacks tells the full history of the Cossack units that fought in the Wehrmacht in World War ll. Highly detailed captions accompany a spectacular collection of some 300 photographs, nearly all of which have never been seen before.

Warriors and Peasants: The Don Cossacks in Late Imperial Russia (St. Antony's)
Shane O'Rourke

Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Warriors and Peasants depicts the lives of the Don Cossacks, the largest of all the Cossack communities, in late Imperial Russia. The dual identity of the Cossacks, that of the steppe and of the settled Slavic areas, is emphasized as the key to their unique culture. The book explores how that identity manifested and preserved itself by focusing on the Cossack tradition, their economy, their families and their communities. Far from being ...

The Cossacks

1 review
Jean Ure

Overlook Hardcover, 2002

Author brings a lot of confusion into understanding of cossacks.
Author is telling a story of Russian cossacks who evolved from Ukrainians that fled into Don region after they were defeated by Russian tsarina Catherin, but he don't bother himself to dig deeper to find a historical truth. His story is heavily biased by Soviet and Russian propaganda that impute ancient Ukrainian history (including Cossack movement) to Russian empire. If you want to know a ...

Uniforms and Insignia of the Cossacks in the German Wehrmacht in World War II (Schiffer Military History Book)
Peter Schuster, Harald Tiede

Schiffer Publishing, 2003

This book examines the uniforms and badges of an almost forgotten group of soldiers Don, Kuban, Terek and Siberian Cossack units that fought with the German Wehrmacht during World War II. With the cooperation of former members of many Cossack units the authors have collected a great deal of material much of the information I this book appears in print here for the first time. Among the subjects covered are: Cossacks in the Imperial Russian Army; ...

The Cossacks (Men-at-Arms)
Albert Seaton

Osprey Publishing, 1972

The term ?Cossack? was originally applied to the Tartar raiders who roamed the Southern Plain, the word coming from the Turko-Tartar, meaning at first ?free adventurer?. In the 15th century when it began to refer to a people ditinguished by their own tongue and customs who formed separate communities. These strong, free Cossack communities were seen as a threat to the Tsar until in 1671 they were obliged to swear fealty. From that date onwards ...

The Cossacks
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

ReadHowYouWant, 2007

ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type. EasyRead Super Large books are available in 20pt. Bold and 24pt. Bold Type. You choose the format that is right for you. A beautiful narrative, ?The Cossacks? reveals a story about ...

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