This is the biography of the military leader, the Marquis of Montrose. A successful commander of the Scottish royalist forces during the war with the Covenanters, contemporaneous with the English Civil War. This book reveals Montrose's military skills in descriptions of his battles, and also discusses ...
Features Stalin's leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. This book challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualities as a leader; his relationships with his own generals and with other great world leaders; his foreign policy; and his role in instigating the Cold War.
A second edition, with a completely new contextual introduction and other new material, of a superb selection (first published in 1973 and for long out of print) of some of the best science fiction from continental Europe. Franke (Germany), Wolfgang Jeschke (Germany), Gerard Klein (France) and others.