REPRINT. Hardbound. Cloth. Oversized octavo. xxxviii, 518 p. 14 pl. (incl. front., ports.) 5 fold. maps, 2 plans. London, New York, Bombay, Calcutta, Longmans, Green and Co., 1908 . Only Hardcover Reprint of this title currently in print. Contains five color maps and charts. This is an excellent account of Russian Confrontations with the Ottoman Empire and Persia in the Caucasus. Later chapters cover the period from 1829 to 1859 and deal mostly with the military campaigns of Sheikh Shamil against the Russians. Still one of the best books on the military history of the Region during this period. Illustrated, including five color maps and charts.