To Catch a Tartar: Notes from the Caucasus (Astrophysics and Space Science Library) [Idioma Inglés]: 268 - Tapa dura

Bird, Chris

 
9780719560279: To Catch a Tartar: Notes from the Caucasus (Astrophysics and Space Science Library) [Idioma Inglés]: 268
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ISBN 10: 0719560276 ISBN 13: 9780719560279
Editorial: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1999

Sinopsis

"To catch a Tartar": it has ever been thus when the Russian empire has sought to subdue the Chechens. The war continues to this day at inhuman cost in the valleys and mountains of the Caucasus. Sergei Novikov, a colonel and Arabist in the KGB, warned Chris Bird in 1993 not to go to the Caucasus, telling him he would be shot or kidnapped down the first side street. He spoke darkly of fellow agents travelling the region in armoured trains and of railway bandits working the Steppe. Chris Bird ignored his friend's advice and took his young family to the Georgian capital Tblisi, where he worked as a reporter. The nights were broken by gunfire, his flat lit by storm lanterns run on stolen jet fuel. The anarchy on the streets outside his courtyard and across the turbulent Caucasus mountains was reminiscent of revolutionary Russia, and the Russian soldiers driving off to the front to start a new war in Chechnya brought to mind the armies of "War and Peace". In "To Catch a Tartar", Chris Bird traces a personal journey through the violent decolonization of the Soviet empire recording a war in which lightly-armed Chechen fighters held their own against tens of thousands of Russian troops, a conflict that in many essentials has not changed since Lermontov and Tolstoy fought the "gortsy", the "mountaineers" of the Caucasus.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Acerca del autor

Chris Bird was expelled from Oxford University and later from Belgrade where he was based as the Guardian's Balkans correspondent during the war in Kosovo. Before that he was the Caucasus correspondent for Agence France-Presse and then Associated Press, and lived in Tbilisi with his family. He is now a medical student in London. To Catch a Tartar is his first book.

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Editorial
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0719560276
ISBN 13 
9780719560279
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
315
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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9780719565069: To Catch a Tartar: Notes from the Caucasus [Idioma Inglés]

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ISBN 10:  0719565065 ISBN 13:  9780719565069
Editorial: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2003
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