bluebrotha77
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No haha but i would still be very interested in a book on them.have you got a recommendation raleigh?Does KGB count?
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The GOT Book Club
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summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
I read KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev by Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky a number of years ago and found it interesting and enlightening...but it's a tome. It covers from the earliest days of Russian secret police to near the end. Gordievsky was a turncoat KGB operative, so it has a lot of stuff in there that was not publicly available at the time (1990). It was years ago though, so I'm tentative in giving it a full recommendation.
For slightly older Russian history Robert K. Massie does absolutely fantastic work. His history of Peter the Great was absolutely brilliant, and one of my favorite biographies ever.
bluebrotha77
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Cheers lad.i will have a look online tomorrow.much appreciated
His Genghis Khan series is my favourite. The Caesar and War of the Roses books are good but pale in comparison the Khan books.
Read Massie's biography of Catherine the Great. Very good.
Finally got around to finishing this one after loving the TV show based off of it (The Expanse). It is a sci-fi Geo-political thriller similar to the Ender's Game sequels. Quite good, though the dialog could be improved the rest of the story is fantastic.
I read that one as well. It was very good, but the subject wasn't quite as fascinating to me as Peter. Both were equally well done, but the story of Peter the Great is absolutely immense.
I haven't read his books on Nicolas yet, but probably will at some point simply due to how much I enjoyed his work.
dholliday
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Finally got around to finishing this one after loving the TV show based off of it (The Expanse). It is a sci-fi Geo-political thriller similar to the Ender's Game sequels. Quite good, though the dialog could be improved the rest of the story is fantastic.
haha sounds good!
Black Cloud from Fred Hoyle has just arrived. It's classic sci-fi which I've somehow never heard of, just found out about it during one of those long Wikipedia clicksessions. Gonna enjoy a Lagavulin or two with it later on.
Just finished this.
If you like Antony Beevor - Stalingrad, Berlin etc you'll like this.
Just like Beevor, Holland makes a potentially dry subject very interesting.
bluebrotha77
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loved anthony beevors books.very easy reading.
You'll like this book then. Written much like Beevors books, easy to read and doesn't get bogged down in detail.
My wife read at least one of his books on the Romanovs which she really enjoyed as well. I've got to swipe her Kindle and read it!
bluebrotha77
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Ya that is what i like most about him is his writing style.to many of them type books are just zzzzzzzzzzzzzz but he keeps you interested from start to finish.you would always feel sorry for the poor people caught in the middle.rolled over by the germans and then rolled over by the russians.
Or in this case the Italians. Rolled over by the Germans, then rolled over twice by the Allies