That cover is of Assyrian Tanks at the Gates of Memphis by Mikhail Akhmanov from 2008.
I am afraid I have not read it.
You will probably find more hits for the author if you type his name in Cyrillic: Михаил АхмановHere is a blurb
The fastest things to undergo change in this world are weapons. Just a few millennia, and the sword and the chariot are replaced by machineguns and tanks. The slowest thing to change is human nature. If the soul is black, if it desires another’s blood, then even centuries of civilization can’t change it. But if it has bravery and love, then even the worst hardships won’t force a man to run away or betray. No matter what enemy he has to fight. Be it with the Germans near Moscow or with the Assyrian soldiers airdropped at the foot of the Egyptian Pyramids. Which means, “Get up, the land of Amun Ra, fight to the death, defeat the Assyrian disease, the cursed horde!”
Looks like some AI shit to me.
These covers have been around for like 10 years, I pulled some of these pics from an old hard drive I had them saved on.
The first is Save the future! The Leader’s “Time Traveler” by Viktor Poberezhnykh
Stalin gets in touch with Putin so that he can bring him back on to the right track, by declaring martial law and going to war with the United States.
The second is Crusader from the future: Commander from the Future Crusader series.
Our contemporary, abandoned in Antimir, where almost all of medieval Europe was conquered by Muslims, becomes the Commander of the knightly Order of the Holy Cross and the last hope of Christian civilization. Let all the former Commanders fall either from an enemy saber on the battlefield, or from a dagger and poison of assassins, and the Order itself, defeated by the Arabs, is on the verge of complete destruction; let the “popadanets” barely own cold weapons and sit on a horse like a dog on a fence, and against him are Polish pans, and corrupt clergymen, and warlocks, and Ugrians (Hungarians) who converted to Islam, but the Crusader from the future has 20 years of service behind him in the Soviet special forces, on the belt - the legendary blade, according to legend, belonged to John Chrysostom himself
The first author is reference here though the second is not.
Here is a longer article about those kind of Russian alt history/sci-fi books: https://www.eurozine.com/post-soviet-science-fiction-and-the-war-in-ukraine/ They seem to crop up a lot since 2010 and often feature both historical revisionism, glorifying Stalinism, and futurism of an decidedly imperialistic and fascist bent.
Yes. There is a link to that very article in the post to which you replied.
