The two-volume collection of documents from N.S. Khrushchev's personal archives provide one more opportunity to study one of the most remarkable and simultaneously most controlversial leader of the Soviet Union. Through his personal archives, we are able to get an image of Khrushchev not only as a great political figure, but also a private citizen and analyze his activities at various stages...

In the opening days of WWII, Soviet border troops and infantry, under the protection of naval forces, crossed the Danube and seized the Romanian city of Chilia Veche.

The book examines the inter-war period of European history and raises the question, if the second world war was unavoidable.

The memoirs of Soviet Marshall Eremenko.

The author examines the many local conflicts of the Cold War, where not just Soviet military advisers served, but also secret special troops, engaged in direct conflict. The book is the first, complete encyclopedia of these secret wars of the USSR and is based on archival documents only recently released.

Fictionalized story of the Soviet-German espionage before the World War II.

In the last few years, many books taking a critical look at Marshall Zhukov have been published in Russia. The author of this book, Aleksei Isaev, seeks to rebut some of the claims he considers unfounded.

Originally published in 1969, this book is Che Guevara's description of guerilla tactics and strategy based on his experience and hit-and-run tactics that were paramount to the overthrow of Cubas government and the establishment of the Castro regime.

Memoirs of a German officer, in which the author talks about his service in the Reichswehr, Hitler's Wehrmacht and the Bundeswehr. In 1960, Bruno Winzer, a staff officer in the Bundeswehr, secretly left West Germany and crossed into the territory of the German Democratic Republic, where he published this book - the story of his life.

The assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo started a chain of events that led to the beginning of World War One. It lis less clear, in the eyes of the author, as to why security was minimal for the Archduke, how dangerous was the 'Black Hand' organization and who stood to benefit from the destruction of the old man of Europe?

The Atlantic Wall became the most grandiose system of coastal fortifications in the history of mankind. Its coastal batteries, concrete underground structures, and various anti-landing defenses represented masterpieces of artillery and construction engineering. At the same time, Hitler and his admirals made a number of unforgivable miscalculations that made the successful Allied invasion of...