The history of the Russian army. Kersnovsky A.A.

The main completed labor of the Russian military emigrant historian A.A. Kersnovsky (1907-1944) was the four-volume “History of the Russian Army”, published abroad in the 1930-1940s. and gaining immense popularity in modern Russia immediately after its first publication in the early 1990s. This is the history of the Russian Ground Army written in line with a single concept, starting from the time of Peter the Great to the fall of the Russian Empire.

In this book you will not find boring transfers of military formations with a detailed description of the dislocation of each of them, the meticulous calculation of the ratio of forces , a detailed analytical description of the plans of campaigns and their maintenance. The author knew how to find brief, but exclusively accurate and exhausting characteristics of the main parameters of the preparation of the armed forces for each war, concisely determined the most important factors of victories or failures. That is why his book is read as a fascinating whole artistic work with a clear plot, the main character of which is the Russian nation, its state and its army.