The first comprehensive coverage of the major branches and ace pilots of the Russian Air Service in the Great War.

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Bayonets before Bullets is the first comprehensive institutional and operational history of the Imperial Russian Army during the crucial period of its moderniza

A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front. Expanding our focus to the

Force Structure, Tactics, and Modernization of the Russian Ground Forces The mighty Soviet Army is no more. The feckless Russian Army that stumbled into Chechny