From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" (Financial Times) comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age.The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale-these are the enduring icons...

From the "master of historical narrative" (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work-the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture.The nineteenth century in Europe was a time of unprecedented...

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. His last book, A PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY (Cape 1996), won the NCR Book Award, the Wolfson History Prize, the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award and the...

History on a grand scale--an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizationsA People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other...

A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'A magnificent, magisterial...

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Born in London in 1959, he was previously a Lecturer in History and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. A People¿s Tragedy received the Wolfson Prize, the...

"This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West." -Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy...

A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'A magnificent, magisterial...

"Nataschas Tanz: Kulturgeschichte Russlands" von Orlando Figes bietet eine umfassende und faszinierende Erkundung der russischen Kulturgeschichte. Das Buch beginnt mit den Ursprüngen der russischen Identität und führt den Leser durch die...

"The Crimean War: A History" von Orlando Figes bietet eine umfassende Darstellung des Krimkriegs, der von 1853 bis 1856 zwischen Russland und einer Allianz aus dem Osmanischen Reich, Frankreich, Großbritannien und Sardinien geführt...

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Peasant Russia, Civil War, A People's Tragedy, Natasha's Dance, The Whisperers, Crimea and Just Send Me Word. His work has won a number...

"War and Peace" von Leo Tolstoy, in der Ausgabe "Penguin Clothbound Classics" mit einem Vorwort von Orlando Figes, ist ein epischer Roman, der das Schicksal mehrerer aristokratischer Familien im Russland des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts...