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The Battle that Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire
Peter Englund
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| #350064 in Books | I. B. Tauris | 2013-04-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 11.05 x.89 x5.69l,.70 | File type: PDF | 304 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Brilliant|By Greg E.|This is a unique book. It combines a near-novelization with a documentary approach. I have no idea how it reads in Swedish, but the power of the words in English is still felt. It puts you into the shoes of the doomed army of Charles XII as he leads them deeper into Russian Empire and through hubris, ill luck and bad planning changes the fates of his men||
""The most outstanding brilliant military history I've ever read"" --Sunday Telegraph
'This victory', exulted Peter the Great, 'has laid the final stone in the foundations of St Petersburg!' The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of the Tsar's vast Russian Empire. In 1700, seeking to open Russian trade routes to the West, the Tsar combined with Denmark, Saxony and Poland to attack Swedish hegemony in the North. Against the odds, King Charles XII of Sweden subdued the hostile coalition for nearly a decade, but in 1708 took his fatal decision to ...
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