{"product_id":"war-in-ukraine-volume-13-donbass-ukraines-industrial-heartland-1700-2022","title":"War in Ukraine Volume 13: Donbass, Ukraine's Industrial Heartland, 1700-2022","description":"      \u003chr style=\"border: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 2px; margin: 0;\"\u003e      \u003cbr\u003e      \u003cdiv id=\"product-details\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"product-detail-name\" style=\"color: rgb(255, 61, 61); font-weight: bold; padding-right: 10px\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"product-detail-text\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSimon Kiwek\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"product-detail-name\" style=\"color: rgb(255, 61, 61); font-weight: bold; padding-right: 10px\"\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"product-detail-text\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"product-detail-name\" style=\"color: rgb(255, 61, 61); font-weight: bold; padding-right: 10px\"\u003eFormat:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"product-detail-text\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"product-detail-name\" style=\"color: rgb(255, 61, 61); font-weight: bold; padding-right: 10px\"\u003ePages:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"product-detail-text\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e88\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"product-detail-name\" style=\"color: rgb(255, 61, 61); font-weight: bold; padding-right: 10px\"\u003ePhotos:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"product-detail-text\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e5 b\/w photos, 64 colour photos, 7 colour maps, 8 figures\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"product-detail-name\" style=\"color: rgb(255, 61, 61); font-weight: bold; padding-right: 10px\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"product-detail-text\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eHelion and Company\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"product-barcode\" class=\"product-detail\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"product-detail-name\" style=\"color: rgb(255, 61, 61); font-weight: bold; padding-right: 10px\"\u003eISBN:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"product-detail-text\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e9781806722877\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"product-sku\" style=\"margin-top: 15px; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eItem No. 9781806722877\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e      \u003cbr\u003e      \u003chr style=\"border: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 2px; margin: 0;\"\u003e      \u003cbr\u003e      \u003cdiv id=\"product-description\" style=\"text-indent: 25px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Cossack wild fields to ground zero of drone warfare: For centuries, the Donbas has served as Europe's military crucible—through industrial armaments, the Russian Civil War, Soviet supremacy, and the turmoil of the 1990s. Today, this once-forgotten industrial heartland has become the battlefield laboratory where AI, autonomous weapons, and decentralized tactics are redefining modern warfare for the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Belgian industrialists transformed the barren steppe into the Russian Empire's arsenal in the 1860s, they laid the foundation for a region that would repeatedly reshape warfare. British engineer John Hughes built Donetsk that armed tsarist armies. Bolsheviks and White Guards fought their bloodiest battles here, and during the Holodomor, Stalin squeezed the region’s grain reserves to finance his war machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter communism's collapse, this once-mighty industrial complex fell apart along with the once proud soviet army, becoming a rust belt of outdated 19th-century machinery and economic ruin. Until 2014, when volunteer fighters—often football hooligans with hockey sticks—defended Kyiv's Euromaidan Revolution and marched east to confront Russian-backed separatists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Donbas reveals how decentralized innovation replaced state monopolies on warfare. Discover how crowdfunded drone units, battlefield hackers, and AI developers created a \"people's military-industrial complex\" that NATO generals cannot replicate. From FPV kamikaze drones to autonomous targeting systems, this book exposes the technological arms race transforming combat while traditional armies remain trapped in bureaucratic paralysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is essential reading for military historians, defense analysts, and anyone seeking to understand the economic background of how modern warfare evolved from industrialized battles to AI-powered fields—and why the future of conflict might be decided by startups, not states.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e      \u003cbr\u003e      \u003chr style=\"border: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 2px; margin: 0;\"\u003e    ","brand":"Helion and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67603822346414,"sku":"9781806722877","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0549\/2486\/9806\/files\/9781806722877.jpg?v=1790746480","url":"https:\/\/rzm.com\/de\/products\/war-in-ukraine-volume-13-donbass-ukraines-industrial-heartland-1700-2022","provider":"RZM Imports Inc","version":"1.0","type":"link"}