This massive work by the German historian Johann Droysen is still, after 150 years, one of the standard works on the rise and fall of Hellenism. Beginning with the campaigns and conquests of Alexander the Great and ending with the collapse of the Hellenistic outposts, such as Ptolemaic Egypt and the rise of the new Roman empire.

Series: Rossiia zabytaia i neizvesntnaia. Beloe dvizhenie

The book is dedicated to little-studied, but extremely dramatic pages of the history of the Civil War and partisan struggle in Siberia and the East with the participation of the Siberian Cossack army. This story is quite comparable to what happened on the 'quiet Don' or the 'free Kuban'. The author describes mainly the military side of events, relying on documents from the Cossack funds of a...

This is a four-volume publication about the spiritual, intellectual and cultural life of Terezin (Teresienstadt). This town 60 km from Prague was turned into a concentration camp/ghetto for Jews; for most the next stop was the camp of Auschwitz (Oswiecim) or other death camps. Terezin was a show camp for commissions from the Red Cross to demonstrate the happy life of the Jews, an eerie place in...

One of the first books to examine the history of Iran in the 20th century. The author especially examines the relations between Iran and Russia and other European and Arab states.

The book contains reprints of the 6 issues of the weekly publication of the VChK and the journal Krasnyi Terror, both of which are extremely rare now. These publications give a unique insight into the situation inside of Revolutionary Russia in 1918.

The book is about one of the largest archaeological monuments of the Mountain Crimea, which is the cave city, Eski-Kermen. It was founded in the Middle Ages.

' (Booker Prize in 2003). All the action of the novel is developed in one room of the Soviet House-boarding school for disabled, where two friends live. As helpless people they are fully isolated from the outer world and taken a bad care of. All they do is talking and playing chess. All life seems to them a chessboard on which each figure has the value. Both know that sooner or later when game...

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. A big format book illustrated with photographs from the movie made by C.Lewis's story.

In light of the current struggles in the Caucasus, the author reviews the wars of the 19th century, the struggles between the mountain tribes of the Northern Caucasus under the leadership of Imam Shamil and the forces of Tsarist Russia.