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Watch out! The Cossacks are coming!
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THE
COSSACKS
An Illustrated History
By John Ure
Overlook. $45.
Perhaps 30 years ago, there was a vogue for popular illustrated
histories and biographies. Some were original, others pictorially
amplified reissues, but all were slightly oversized volumes by lively
writers, with appealing subjects and lots of pictures and maps.
John Ure's The Cossacks is in this lavish tradition, at once
pleasing to look at and to read. There are scores of paintings of
Co...
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