21 February 2013
Caucasus — In the wake of warriors
Nicholas Griffin
Review, London
August 2001
256 pages
ISBN: 978-0-7472-3630-6
(In subsequent years republished with a variety of different subtitles (A Journey, A Journey in the Crucible of Civilisation, A Journey to the Land between Christianity and Islam and Mountain Men and Holy Wars …
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30 January 2013
Let Our Fame be Great — Journeys Among the Defiant Peoples of the Caucasus
Oliver Bullough
Allen Lane, London
March 2010
508 pages
ISBN: 978-1-846-14141-6
Let Our Fame be Great takes its name from an episode of North Caucasus mythology. In the tale, the Narts — the heroes of these stories — are …
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5 December 2012
The Post-Soviet Wars — Rebellion, Ethnic Conflict, and Nationhood in the Caucasus
Christoph Zürcher
New York University Press, New York
November 2007
302 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8147-9709-9
Despite its general title, The Post-Soviet Wars covers only the major wars that took place in the Caucasus: the Karabakh war, the two Russo-Chechen wars …
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