First hand accounts from authors, who served as peacekeepers in the Balkans as military observers, policemen, etc during the Yugoslav crises of the 1990s.

An interesting series exploring the history of Russian/Soviet special services. The authors are often working with archival materials never before published.

Ferdinand Schoerner was a General and later Field Marshal in the German Army during World War II. He was one of 27 people to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds and one of the youngest German generals. He was also known for his brutality.

The author examines the nuclear weapon crises in North Korea and Iran and the challenges the world faces in stopping proliferation.

The book is well-known British researcher Peter Smith devoted to the history of a dive bomber aircraft since the advent of this class and completing their application in the sky Vietnam. The author gives a detailed description of the tactics of air combat dive bombers and tells about the most famous pilots of aces of World War II.

The author of many books, a famous collector of legends and myths about St. Petersburg, Naum Aleksandrovich Sindalovsky, presents a unique collection of St. Petersburg folklore, which, like a magic mirror, reflected 300 years of the reign of the Romanov dynasty. It began with the curse of Marina Mniszech. But this long journey was not only marked by tragedies; many sparkling witticisms, funny...