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  • The Red Army Guerrilla Warfare Pocket Manual, 1943

    by Lester Grau, Michael Gress ...
    Series series The Pocket Manual Series
    The indispensable guerilla warfare manual, first developed by the Russian military during WWII—with a thorough introduction on its legendary history.During the Second World War, the Red Army developed The Partisan's Companion to train Soviet guerillas to fight Nazi invaders It contains the Soviet lessons of two bitter years of war, covering field craft, guerilla tactics, German counter-guerrilla ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bear Went Over The Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics In Afghanistan [Illustrated Edition]

    by Lester K. Grau ...
    [Illustrated with 52 maps and diagrams]Sixteen years after its commencement and six years after its cessation, the Soviet-Afghan War remains an enigma for Westerners. Set against the backdrop of earlier successful Soviet military interventions in East Germany (1953), Hungary (1956), and Czechoslovakia (1968), and occasional Soviet military pressure on Poland, the stark military power of the Soviet ... Read more

    $2.78 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Soviet-Afghan War

    How a Superpower Fought and Lost

    by Lester Grau ...
    The War in Afghanistan (1979-1989) has been called "the Soviet Union's Vietnam War," a conflict that pitted Soviet regulars against a relentless, elusive, and ultimately unbeatable Afghan guerrilla force (the mujahideen). The hit-and-run bloodletting across the war's decade tallied more than 25,000 dead Soviet soldiers plus a great many more casualties and further demoralized a USSR on the verge ... Read more

    $14.07 CAD

  • The Red Army's Do-It-Yourself, Nazi-Bashing Guerrilla Warfare Manual

    The Partizan's Companion, 1943

    by Lester Grau, Michael Gress ...
    The WWII Soviet guerilla training manual that became an essential text for freedom fighters across the globe—complete with illustrations.When Germany invaded the Soviet Union during World War II, the Red Army began recruiting local partisans to help mount a resistance. This edition of The Partisan's Companion is the last and best Red Army manual used to train these men to fight Nazi invaders. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Other Side Of The Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics In The Soviet-Afghan War [Illustrated Edition]

    by Lester K. Grau, Ali Ahmad Jalali ...
    Illustrated with over a hundred maps.When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, few experts believed that the fledgling Mujahideen resistance movement had a chance of withstanding the modern, mechanized, technologically-advanced Soviet Army. Most stated that resistance was futile and that the Soviet Union had deliberately expanded their empire to the south. The Soviet Union had come to ... Read more

    $3.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fangs of the Lone Wolf

    Chechen Tactics in the Russian-Chechen War 1994–2009

    by Dodge Billingsley ...
    Stories of combat from a man who embedded with Chechen guerrilla forces: "His insights . . . are second to none." —Thomas de Waal, author of Black GardenBooks on guerrilla war are seldom written from the tactical perspective, and even less seldom from the guerrilla's perspective. Fangs of the Lone Wolf: Chechen Tactics in the Russian-Chechen Wars 1994-2009 is an exception. These are the stories of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arctic Naval Combat in Support of Ground Operations

    Soviet Naval Support of the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation, October 1944

    Edited by Lester Grau ...
    Translated to English from the original Soviet General Staff report, this is an account of the naval support of the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation in October 1944—the only large-scale ground/naval and air operation ever fought in the Arctic. With additional contemporary supporting material on wider-scale Arctic combat including descriptions of combat tactics and weaponry from noted Soviet military ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Bear Went Over the Mountain

    Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan

    Edited by Lester W. Grau ...
    Series series Soviet (Russian) Study of War
    This collection of vignettes was written by Soviet junior officers describing their experiences fighting the Mujahideen guerillas. It is not a history of the Soviet-Afghan war, but snapshots of combat as seen by young platoon leaders, company commanders, battalion commanders and military advisers. ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Other Side of the Mountain

    Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War

    by Ali Ahmad Jalali, Lester W. Grau ...
    This book tells the story of the Soviet-Afghan war in the words of the Mujahideen guerrillas themselves. For ten years the Mujahideen fought a military superpower that had invaded their homeland. Outnumbered and outgunned, they used clazzic guerrilla tactics to gradually wear down and finally defeat the Soviet army. The authors interviewed Mujahideen commanders and fighters, who describe over 100 ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

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  • Soviet Defensive Tactics At Kursk, July 1943

    by Colonel David M Glantz ...
    In his classic work, On War, Carl von Clausewitz wrote, "As we shall show, defense is a stronger form of fighting than attack." A generation of nineteenth century officers, nurtured on the study of the experiences of Napoleon and conditioned by the wars of German unification, had little reason to accept that view. The offensive spirit swept through European armies and manifested itself in the ... Read more

    $3.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After Stalingrad: The Red Army's Winter Offensive 1942-1943

    The Red Army's Winter Offensive, 1942-1943

    by David M. Glantz ...
    In the wake of the Red Army's signal victory at Stalingrad, which began when its surprise counteroffensive encircled German Sixth Army in Stalingrad region in mid-November 1942 and ended when its forces liquidated beleaguered Sixth Army in early February 1943, the Soviet High Command (Stavka) expanded its counteroffensive into a full-fledged winter offensive which nearly collapsed German defenses ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forgotten Ally

    China's World War II, 1937–1945

    by Rana Mitter ...
    A history of the Chinese experience in WWII, named a Book of the Year by both the Economist and the Financial Times: "Superb" ( The New York Times Book Review).In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese occupiers in the first battle of World War II. Joining with the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, China became the fourth great ally in ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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