The Guns of August 2008: Russia's War in Georgia - Paperback

by Svante E. Cornell (Author), S. Frederick Starr (Author)

In the summer of 2008, a conflict that appeared to have begun in the breakaway Georgian territory of South Ossetia rapidly escalated to become the most significant crisis in European security in a decade. This book presents facts about the events of August 2008 along with comprehensive coverage of the background to those events.