15 Best russia books like Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine by Mark Galeotti

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Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine

By: Mark Galeotti

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A timely and accessible history of how Putin and the conflicts he has chosen to involve Russia in h…

If you liked the russia plot in Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine by Mark Galeotti , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

By: Serhii Plokhy

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more

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2. Our Enemies Will Vanish

By: Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
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3. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

By: Timothy Garton Ash

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

By: Calder Walton

4.30

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with le… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
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5. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

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6. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

By: Catherine Belton

4.18

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
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7. The Story of Russia

By: Orlando Figes

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
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8. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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9. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By: Antony Beevor

3.90

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
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10. Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

By: David H. Petraeus

4.06

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strate… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
"A recurring theme of this book is that money spent on deterrence is seldom wasted, especially when considered against the costs incurred when the deterrence fails."

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

"Hybrid warfare particularly appeals to China and Russia, since they are much more able to control the information their populaces receive than are their Western adversaries. A 1999 book, Unrestricted…"

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

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11. Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine

By: Mark Galeotti

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A timely and accessible history of how Putin and the conflicts he has chosen to involve Russia in h… read more

Similar categories in Mark Galeotti's Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine book and Mark Galeotti's Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine

  • russia
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
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12. Overreach

By: Owen Matthews

4.37

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • military history
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
Cover of White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan by Mick Ryan

13. White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

By: Mick Ryan

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This book "is entertaining, thought-provoking and quite possibly prescient. Not just an engaging ta… read more

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  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
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14. Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival

By: Luke Harding

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding's personal, front… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
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15. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

By: Simon Shuster

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Time  correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukrain… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
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16. Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror

By: John Sweeney

4.24

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, e… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
Cover of War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine by Mikhail Zygar

17. War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

By: Mikhail Zygar

4.28

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

From an award-winning Russian journalist, a brisk, clearly written history of Ukraine—from its emer… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
Cover of The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin's Russia by Robert B. Baer

18. The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin's Russia

By: Robert B. Baer

3.69

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told story of the thrilling hunt for a KGB spy in the top ranks of the CIA and the… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
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19. Dit wil je écht niet weten

By: Huib Modderkolk

3.97

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

'Ik wil dit eigenlijk niet weten,' krijgt onderzoeksjournalist Huib Modderkolk regelmatig te horen … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv by Illia Ponomarenko

20. I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv

By: Illia Ponomarenko

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A raw, irreverent account of a young Ukrainian reporter on-the-ground as his country heroically def… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
"So many millions of men and women, from high-ranking officials to regular folks like us, making the moral choice of not giving in to the dark—but doing what was right, no matter what."

-Illia Ponomarenko, I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv

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21. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

18 Best history books like Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine by Mark Galeotti

Transform Your Habits

Our Enemies Will Vanish

Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

Timothy Garton Ash

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Calder Walton

4.30

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The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

Serhii Plokhy

4.30

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Transform Your Habits

The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

Michael Pillsbury

4.21

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2034: A Novel of the Next World War

Elliot Ackerman

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Our Enemies Will Vanish

Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto

4.01

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