EMPIRES BY CONQUEST by Onacewicz, Wlodzimierz

Hero publications, l985, 2 volumes, no dj as issued, original red cloth, VG- Condition ( vol 2 has light spotting on rear cover ), 9 x ll 1/4, 772 pages, 94 maps, bibliog.---------------------------------------A massive Doctoral thesis on Russian military history from the 9th Century through to 1945. Detailed accounts of wars, campaigns & battles, tactics, weapons, and many maps. 2 volume set . Vol 1 covers from the Mongol invasion thru the rise of Moscow, Ivan the Terrible, the Romanovs, Peter the Great, the Seven Years war, Wars of Catherine the Great, Napoleonic Wars and the Expansion of the Empire incl the Crimean War and the Wars in Central Asia, the Balkans & the Russo-Jap War to l905. Volume 2 covers World War I, the Russian Civil War and Allied Intervention, the Russo-Polish War 1919-20, Russo-Finnish War l939-40 and World War II.