The Russo-Turkish War, 1768–1774: Catherine II and the Ottoman Empire, by Brian L. Davies
Journal: The English Historical Review
Year: 2017

Brian Davies has already become a recognised expert in the military history of Russia before the reign of Peter the Great, having published extensively on steppe warfare before 1700 and on the establishment of a Russian military and administrative presence on the southern borderlands in the seventeenth century. He is now establishing his reputation as an eighteenth-century Russian military specialist with a particular focus on warfare in the south. This present book explains how Catherine the Gr