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Author: Dmitry Ryabushkin ,
Harold Orenstein
Publisher: Helion & Company
Imprint: Helion & Company
ISBN: 9781914059230
ISBN 10: 1914059239
Pages: 76
Publication Date: 15 May 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Another very interesting read on a minor and rarely mentioned conflict. [...] An excellent if thin book on a limited subject that had far-reaching consequences. Recommended for armchair historians, wargamers and model-makers. * Scale Military Modelling International Magazine 15/06/2021 *
This book will appeal to those interested in modern skirmish warfare and geopolitical issues in the late twentieth century. * Wargames Illustrated 02/08/2021 * Another very interesting read on a minor and rarely mentioned conflict. […] An excellent if thin book on a limited subject that had far-reaching consequences. Recommended for armchair historians, wargamers and model-makers. * Scale Military Modelling International Magazine 15/06/2021 *
Author Information
Born in the USSR, Dr. of Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor at the Crimean Federal University named after V.I. Vernadsky. He has published 5 monographs and more than 50 articles in the field of physics, teaching methods, and problems of university education in Russia. He has been studying the subject of the Sino-Soviet border war since 2000. He has published four monographs on this theme: The Myth of Damansky [Мифы Даманского] in 2004; Damansky Island. The Border Conflict. March 1969 [Остров Даманский. Пограничный конфликт. Март 1969 года] in 2015; It Was on Damansky [Это было на Даманском] in 2019; and The Sino-Soviet Border Conflict of 1969 [Советско-китайский пограничный конфликт 1969 года] in 2020 (the original Russian-language version of the book now published by Helion), as well as more than 10 articles on this subject in scholarly journals in Russia, the US, and Japan. He is recognised in Russia as one of the most objective and informative experts in the field of the history of the 1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict. Harold Orenstein was born in the US, received his MA and PhD in Slavic Languages from The Ohio State University. Retired from US government service, during his 31-year career he was a translator-analyst for the Foreign Research Division of the Library of Congress; taught Russian at the US Army Russian Institute; worked as a translator, editor, and analyst for the Foreign Military Studies Office (formerly the Soviet Army Studies Office) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; served as a military-political analyst for Central and East European affairs at SHAPE (NATO's military branch); and served as a military analyst specialising in US joint and multinational doctrine for the Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
