This is the riveting account of one of the first Americans to spy for Joseph Stalin. A brilliant Columbia University graduate, Isaiah Oggins went to Berlin to establish a safe house and spy for his country-but he turned coat. Working ...

'That Black Earth is an extraordinary work is, for anyone who has known Russia, beyond question.'—George Kennan 'A compassionate glimpse into the extremes where the new Russia meets the old,' writes Robert Legvold (Foreign Affairs)...

Andrew's Meier riveting portrait of Chechnya, a land ravaged by indescribable carnage, enables us to understand the origins of this brutal conflict like no other recent work. The barbaric, terrorist siege in the summer of 2004 that ...