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1.		Baader-Meinhof Complex from The Bodley Head Ltd Price: £8.57	Click here for more information

2.		Infidel from Pocket Books Price: £5.19 Customer Review: I bought this book as an extra when buying something else. I planned to read it on holiday, but it arrived three days before I left and I made the mistake of dipping into it beforehand. It was a mistake because my total absorbtion in this autobiography left me with no more than a few pages to read... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall from Granta Books Price: £5.59 Customer Review: I picked this up after watching "The Lives of Others." The book is well written, mixing evocative (sometimes over-elaborate) reflections with a much more sparse style when retelling some of the scarcely believable stories of the misery of life in the GDR. Some of her observations are very sharp,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Imperium from Granta Books Price: £8.72 Customer Review: This is the very best book to encourage any interest in the former USSR it is a truly truly amazing book. It starts in Pinsk, Poland in an area now called Belarus which was occupied by the Soviets during Ryziard's childhood and he describes the cruel deportation of 200 000 people to Siberia and how... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Putin's Russia from Harvill Press Price: £6.99 Customer Review: Anna Politkovskaya hates Akaky Putin. Really hates him. She says so in one of the final chapters, speaking as a Muscovite who has no desire to relive the Soviet union of the 70s and 80s. This is a brave and shocking book. It is basically several chapters listing the ills of Russia under Putin.... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		Total War and Historical Change: Europe 1914-1955: Europe, 1914-1955 from Open University Press Price: £18.74 Customer Review: I read this book after hearing about it from the open university, and i wasn't dissapointed. It gives a perspective of the two wars that many historians including teachers never touch upon. The concept of total war is given significant space which will make you rethink the criterea of a so called... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia from Allen Lane Price: £18.99 Customer Review: In this book, Figes has diluted and refined his mastery of the art of weaving historical sources together. These family narratives which, without this book, would certainly have been lost, provide a compelling insight into the reality of Soviet Russia - the 'historical' backdrop of dates and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil from Orion Price: £5.99 Customer Review: If there is an American Dream then what Carol Drinkwater describes in this book is, for sure, the British Dream. How many of us have been seduced and spirited away to foreign parts with the promise of a new, simple but meaningful life? This is pure escapism but escapism that so many of us can... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989 from Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Price: £6.99 Customer Review: Obviously you can't write a book about the Berlin Wall or the Second World War without including a lot of politics. I was expecting that. But this book goes to extremes. It is top-heavy history. Taylor is too concerned with the statesmen, the politicians, the generals, the ministers, etc., and their... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		Young Stalin from Weidenfeld & Nicolson Price: £17.50 Customer Review: I loved this book. This gave a completely different aspect of Russian history and the key figures of the Bolshevik coup. Too often, the Revolution is taught only from the perspective of Trotsky and Lenin as the great leaders, with Stalin being the shadowy figure who somehow dethroned Trotsky and... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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