Best of
Russia

1958

The Fleet That Had To Die


Richard Hough - 1958
    Routed in Manchuria, the Russians decided to strike back. In October 1904 their Baltic fleet, a haphazard armada of some fifty outdated and ill-equipped men-of-war, led by a burnt-out neurotic and manned by 10,000 reluctant and badly-trained sailors, set sail for the East. Their plan was to unite with the Pacific squadron, then trapped in Port Arthur, and crush the soldiers of Admiral Togo. The two fleets met at Tsushima on May 27, 1905. Most thought the Russians would have little trouble defeating Japanese naval forces. But what followed was perhaps the greatest naval victory of all time. As Admiral Rozhestvensky's fleet lumbered through the Straits of Tsushima towards Vladivostok on 27 May 1905, the Japanese, in one of the most crushing naval victories of all time, utterly destroyed the Russian armada. Richard Hough recounts the fleet's extraordinary seven-month journey from the Baltic to the Far East in this gripping naval history. "Hough is a good storyteller with a refreshing, breezy style." The Wall Street Journal Richard Hough, the distinguished naval historian and winner of the Daily Express Best Book of the Sea Award (1972) was the author of many acclaimed books in the field including ‘Admirals in Collision’, ‘The Great War at Sea: 1914-18’, and ‘The Longest Battle: The War at Sea 1939-45’. He was also the biographer of Mountbatten, and his last biography, ‘Captain James Cook’, became a world bestseller. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.

It All Started With Marx: A Brief And Objective History Of Russian Communism, The Objective Being To Leave Not One Stone, But Many, Unturned, To State ... Stalin, Malenkov, Khrushchev, And Others


Richard Armour - 1958
    

One Man in His Time


Serge Obolensky - 1958
    

Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work


Will Grohmann - 1958
    "The man and the artist --The years in Russia: youth, academic career and early impressions of art --The Munich years: toward maturity --Studies, travels, and early works --The Murnau period and Blaue Reiter --On the spiritual in art: discoveries and experiments --Genius in full swing --Return to Russia: art and politics --The Bauhaus: theory and practice --Weimar --Dessau --The Paris years --Writings and travels --The new conception --The last years.Other Titles: Wassily Kandinsky.Responsibility: Will Grohmann ; [translated from the German by Norbert Guterman"www.worldcat.org

The Soviets: The Russian Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Councils, 1905-1921


Oskar Anweiler - 1958
    

THE FALL OF THE SAFAVI DYNASTY And The Afghan Occupation Of Persia


Laurence Lockhart - 1958