The history of the Russian army

The work of the Russian military emigrant historian A. A. Kersnovsky (1905-1944) "History of the Russian Army", published abroad in the 1930s, is a universally recognized classic of domestic military-historical literature. It is dedicated to more than 200 years of history of the Russian Imperial Army from the time of Peter the Great to the First World War. This is the most complete and popularly written history of domestic military art.
In his book, Kersnovsky brightly described the identity of the strategy and tactics of commanders, the unbending and unprecedented courage of officers and ordinary soldiers, the greatness of the Russian military genius: "It was worth only some European army to claim the title of “first in the world”, As every time on her victorious path, she met the cheerful Russian regiments - and became the "second in the world." Here is the main conclusion of our military history. So it was, and so it will be. "