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Caucasian Battlefields: A History Of The Wars On The Turco-Caucasian Border 1828-1921 (European War Series)

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If you are seriously intrested in strategy and battle tactics, this is a unique book about a very hard campaign ground. The writer uses without difficulties Turkish and Russian sources and gives a very detailed account of difficult campaigns on the Caucasus. It is not an easy book to read, but invaluable if you are really interested in the history of conflicts in that part of the world.

This is a very good book, well researched and fairly well written about some conflicts that most in the US and UK are not familiar with. The book covers the various Turkish-Russian wars in the Caucasus Mountains of eastern Turkey. It is a military history, with plenty of detailed accounts of campaigns and battles. It also discusses the resistance efforts by some of the people of that area to Russia's rule, especially in Chechnya and Dagistan. The book covers the conflicts mostly from the Russian side, though it does use Turkish sources and discusses what was going on on the Ottoman side of the war(s). About half of the book is devoted to World War I. As a native English speaker, I found it fairly well written.

The book has excellent maps, which certainly help those who are not familiar with the terrain in that part of the world.

I recommend this to major libraries, and those interested in Russia, the Ottoman Empire, or World War I.