Catherine Merridale's books include Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia, which won the Heinemann Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Ivan's War: The Red Army, 1939-45 and Red Fortress: The Secret...

A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources.Of the thirty million who fought in the eastern front of World War II, eight million died,...

Winner of the Wolfson Prize 2013 and Herald Books of the Year 2014, this book revels in both the drama of the Kremlin and its sheer unexpectedness: an impregnable fortress which has repeatedly been devastated, a symbol of all that is...

The first book to put the experience of the ordinary Russian soldier at the heart of a narrative of the war on the Eastern Front. It sold over 10,000 copies in hardback and will be a popular non-fiction book this Christmas. von...

In "Der Kreml. Eine neue Geschichte Russlands" zeigt die Historikerin Catherine Merridale eine detaillierte und faszinierende Erzählung der politischen und kulturellen Entwicklung Russlands durch das Prisma des Kremls. Sie beginnt mit...