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- ↑ "K-Statement -- Nov. 6, 2008/Vol. 31, No. 9".
- ↑ "Past winners of the Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize". The Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
- ↑ "THS Prizes".
- ↑ Faculty: David R. Stone Archived 2017-05-13 at the Wayback Machine U.S. Naval War College. Retrieved 2017-05-25
- ↑ David R. Stone goodreads.com. Cited on 2017-05-25
- ↑ Reviews of A Military History of Russia include:
- Uhler, Walter C. (2007). "A Military History of Russia From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya (review)". The Journal of Military History. 71 (2): 542–543. doi:10.1353/jmh.2007.0163. S2CID 162347594.
- Keep, John (July 2008). "A Military History of Russia, from Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya by David R. Stone (review)". Slavonic and East European Review. 86 (3): 550–552.
- ↑ Willems, Bastiaan (2014). "The Soviet Union at War, 1941–1945, by Stone, David M., ed. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Publishers, 2010. ISBN: 978-1-84884-052-2". The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. 27 (2): 305–307. doi:10.1080/13518046.2014.906822. S2CID 146550199.
- ↑ Reviews of The Russian Army in the Great War include:
- Rielage, Dale C. (2017). "The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1917". Naval War College Review. 70 (2). ProQuest 1878354759.
- Sanborn, Joshua A. (2018). "The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914–1917. By David R. Stone. ( Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2015. Pp. viii, 359. $34.95.)". The Historian. 80 (1): 171–172. doi:10.1111/hisn.12816. S2CID 218498661.
- Marshall, Alex (2016). "The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914–1917". Revolutionary Russia. 28 (1): 114–117. doi:10.1080/09546545.2016.1169002. S2CID 148374428.
- Steinburg, John W. (2016). "The Russian army in the Great War: the Eastern Front, 1914–1917; Imperial apocalypse: the Great War and the destruction of the Russian Empire". First World War Studies. 7 (3): 332–334. doi:10.1080/19475020.2017.1288223. S2CID 164951649.
- Petrone, Karen (2017). "David R. Stone, The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front 1914-1917 Lawrence, Kansas University Press, 2015, vii, 359 pages". The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies (18). doi:10.4000/pipss.4270.
- ↑ "The Great Courses".
- ↑ "World War II Battlefield Europe".
- ↑ "War in the Modern World".
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