This book explores Russia’s recurrent wars with the Ottoman Empire as an important and largely neglected angle on the genesis of modern warfare.
Victor Taki is a sessional instructor of history at Concordia University of Edmonton and the author of Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman EmpireRussia on the Danube: Empire, Elites, and Reform in Moldavia and Wallachia, 1812–1834.