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107 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002

Dostoevsky's final major work...a masterpiece
A truly wonderful piece of fiction. Dostoevsky's (1821-1881) classic work was written towards the end of his life (between 1879-1880). It is a tale of a dysfunctional Russian middle class family; the story follows significant events in the lives of the father (Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov) and his three sons (Dmitri, Ivan and Alexei). Although the first half of the story is slow to develop ...

Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story

53 reviews
Vladislav Tamarov

Ten Speed Press, 2001

a must for anyone interested in Afghan military history
As a paratrooper currently serving my second tour in Afghanistan (and third in the desert overall), I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the Soviet conflict of the 1980s. The photographs provide insight into Afghanistan's terrain and climate, and I used this book to illustrate several points to my subordinates as we were preparing for this deployment. The author's writing is ...

Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag

33 reviews
Janusz Bardach, Kathleen Gleeson

University of California Press, 1998

An unbelievably bleak tale of survival in the Gulag
Janusz Bardach, who became a plastic surgeon in Iowa City, Iowa in 1972, recounts his experiences in the Gulag in this bleak tale of survival reminiscent of Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. A secular Jewish man and supporter of Stalin and communism living in Poland In 1939, he and his family fear their future as Germany's military forces are set up along the border. He is eventually ...

Nicholas and Alexandra

106 reviews
Robert K. Massie

Ballantine Books, 2000

The Tragedy of The Twentieth Century
In 2000, there was much talk about the "most important person of the 20th Century." My choice was always Gavrilo Princip, the young Bosnian assassin who killed Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, igniting World War I, which caused the Russian Revolution, Communism, and the Treaty of Versailles, which led to Naziism, World War II, atomic bombs, and the Cold War. Of course, there were other ...

Terror at Beslan: A Russian Tragedy with Lessons for America's Schools

39 reviews
John Giduck

Archangel Group, 2005

Excellent read, but before you buy more books by this author, read this.
I found this was an excellent book. While the military is at war, America is at the mall, and this book aims to try and get our country of ostriches to pull their heads out of the sand and DO something about the possibility of a terrorist threat in American schools. This book was well-written, packed full of information and suggestions. It covers the history leading up to the school siege at ...

Cancer Ward

40 reviews
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991

A masterpiece old-school Russian style...
No one writes a fat, sprawling, old-fashioned Russian novel quite like a Russian. To the ranks of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, you can add Solzhenitsyn and to novels like *The Brothers Karamazov* and *Anna Karenina* you can add *Cancer Ward.* In fact, *Cancer Ward,* like Tolstoy's slim but immensely profound *The Death of Ivan Illych* begins in much the same fashion: a married, middle-aged career man ...

Civil Procedure: Examples and Explanations (The Examples & Explanations Series)

73 reviews
Joseph W. Glannon

Aspen Law & Business Publishers, 2001

Buy It
I recently finished my first year at a top tier law school. This book did so much for me. If you are serious about getting good grades in CivPro, I think you should seriously consider this book. It forces you to understand the concepts and work through the rules, which is vital to doing well on exams. Don't stress about exams. This will help you.

Peter the Great

101 reviews
Robert K. Massie

Ballantine Books, 1981

A masterpiece of Russian history
Massie's work of Russian history is one of the fines biographies I have ever read. It keeps interest start to finish. It never gets boring at all, and that is important since the book is over 800 pages! Massie delves into the experience that made the man who is Tsar Peter The Great, yet at no time does it ever let down. It is exciting, readable, and very human. I enjoy Massie's book, and I intend ...

Guerra Y Paz (Clasicos Universales Planeta)

31 reviews
Leo Tolstoy

Editorial Planeta, S.A. (Barcelona), 2000

Una obra incomparable.
Sin duda es una de las mejores novelas que jamás se han escrito. En ella se puede encontrar un relato sobre las guerras napoleónicas y la participación de Rusia en ellas, pero también un retrato de la vida de la alta sociedad rusa de la época. Estas situaciones tan diversas están narradas con una gran viveza. Aprovechando el trasfondo histórico de la novela, Tolstoi nos proporciona también sus ...

Life and Fate

43 reviews
Vasilii Semenovich Grossman

Collins Harvill Press, 1985

Genius of the highest order
This masterpiece published by New York Review of Books Classics enters my Top 5 among novels by James Joyce (Ulysses), Proust (La Recherche du Temps Perdu), Tolstoy (War and Peace) and Gaddis (JR): it is pure genius in its epic scope. Inspired by Tolstoy's War and Peace and the siege of Russia by Napoleon, Grossman depicts the siege of Stalingrad by Hitler. Grossman narrates the epic from the ...

The Romanovs: Love, Power & Tragedy

23 reviews
Manfred Knodt, Vladimir Oustimenko, ...

Leppi Publications, 1997

Incredible!!
This book is THE best pictorial/essay on the last Romanovs. I am a Russian history buff and probably have most, if not all, books on the Romanov family (up to this last Tsar-Nicholas II) and this book is by far the most interesting and fascinating with many photos that have never been published before. This book remains close at hand since I find that I go back to it to either re-read, or use ...

LEADERSHIP AND TRAINING FOR THE FIGHT: A FEW THOUGHTS ON LEADERSHIP AND TRAINING FROM A FORMER SPECIAL ...

25 reviews
PAUL, R. HOWE

AuthorHouse, 2005

Outstanding book by a true professional.
Outstanding book by a true professional. MSG Howe is the real deal and an outstanding authority in his field. Would recommend this for any law enforcement or military professional.

Imperium

23 reviews
Ryszard Kapuscinski

Knopf Canada, 1994

Sine qua non
A lyrical masterpiece by this superlative writer! Nowhere have I found a dissection of the Evil Empire done with such fluid verse. He goes from the periphery into the heart of the beast and everywhere he discovers that appearances deceive and what seems to signal change is really a re-hash of old. Kapuczinski's sharp analysis and trenchant comments will be sorely missed!

The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire

19 reviews
Khassan Baiev, Ruth Daniloff

Walker & Company, 2004

Thrilling, heartbreaking must read primer on the human toll of war
If you are interested in war, modern politics, news, or human rights, you need to read this book. It shows what warfare is really like, what happens to people after governments make decisions. And it is heartbreaking, but you cannot put it down. The conflict in Chechnya is mostly forgotten and then often miscontrued topic for most of the world. Dr. Khassan Baiev's memoir sheds a light on the ...

Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust

19 reviews
Miron Dolot

W. W. Norton & Company, 1987

Heart-rending
In 1929, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. During the resulting upheaval, some seven million Ukrainians died of starvation. But, while it ended with mass starvation, the Soviet program of oppression started with property confiscation, arbitrary arrests, judicial and extrajudicial murder, and a whole constellation of unspeakable mistreatment. One of the survivors ...

A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945

30 reviews
Vasily Grossman

Vintage, 2007

Stalingrad, Kursk, Treblinka and More
Vasili Semenovich Grossman was a decorated Soviet military journalist best known in the West for his epic novel, Life and Fate (New York Review Books Classics). In 'A Writer at War' editors and translators Anthony Beevor (Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943), an esteemed historian and author in his own right, and Luba Vinogradova, follow Grossman's progression through the war by piecing ...

Journey into the Whirlwind

29 reviews
Eugenia Semenovna Ginzburg

Harcourt, 1975

"No luck today, my lady Death..."
Eugenia "Genie" Semyonovna Ginzburg spent seventeen years in the Soviet prison system, escaping death, unlike millions of others. She never again saw her husband after being imprisoned. The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn, Man is Wolf to Man by Bardach, Kolyma Tales by Shalamov and Journey into the Whirlwind all include overlapping and similar information, but differ in format and style ...

Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968

21 reviews
Heda Margolius Kovaly

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1989

Its the story that plays in my head whenever tragedy befalls me & gives me the strength to get through it.
I read this about 6 years ago when it was assigned in one of my undergrad classes. There are enough online reviews for you to read about the plot and like. Rather I want to tell you how her voice has stuck with me. I think of her ability to see the slivering when everything is just gray, and her amazing capacity to keep going. Whenever I think I can't go on, this death/or lost/ or series of ...

Pathophysiology of Heart Disease: A Collaborative Project of Medical Students and Faculty

21 reviews
Leonard S Lilly

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002

Best Book Ever
If you are in medical school this book is the greatest thing you will ever buy. For our cardiology block I read this cover to cover and made the highest grade I have ever gotten on an exam. Get it right now!!

Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual

24 reviews
Sheila M Sparks, Cynthia M Taylor

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004

This is a great care plan book
I am a nursing student. I have 4 care plan books that i use when writing a care plan. I use this one alot because its: simply stated and i find rationales in it that the other books don't have. Its worth the money.

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