The Sabres of Paradise
Subtitle: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus, Revised Edition
Edition: Revised Edition edition
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Published: November 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781850434030
Subjects: Battles & campaigns; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; History - General History; History; History: World; Eastern Europe; Russia; Eastern Europe - General; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union)
First sentence: Today, the name of Shamyl means little outside Russia and the Near East, though there are exiled Caucasian families living in Turkey (among them some of Shamyl's descendants) who still hang his portrait on their walls with all the reverence accorded to an ikon.