This work reveals the economic essence of military security, examines current problems of economic justification and effective allocation of budgetary funds directed towards the maintenance and reform of Russia's military organization. A methodology and economic-mathematical tools are proposed for solving the problem of reforming the Russian military organization. An analysis of organizational...

Eine lückenlose Überwachung von Post und Telefon, ein Spitzel in jeder Kneipe, die Verstrahlung von Oppositionellen – es gibt nur wenig, was man der Stasi nicht zutraut. Doch was konnten Mielkes Männer wirklich und was taten sie ganz konkret? Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk erzählt in diesem Buch die Geschichte der Stasi und hinterfragt dabei manche der scheinbaren Gewissheiten, die sich mit ihrem Bild...

In this groundbreaking book, historian Götz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer is as shocking as it is persuasive: by engaging in a campaign of theft on an almost unimaginable scale-and by channeling the proceeds into generous social programs-Hitler literally bought his people's consent.

Fate sometimes lifted him high, sometimes mercilessly threw him down. It seems that everyone knows everything about him - four times Hero of the Soviet Union, hero of Mongolia, outstanding commander, twice awarded the Order of Victory, Marshal G.K. Zhukov. But this is far from true. Zhukov can and should be approached in a new way, and many facts and events of his life should be objectively...

From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka’s first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist opposed to fascism. A non-conformist, bi-sexual feminist, she was way ahead of her time. With the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, her home became a central meeting place for Jewish...

In his book, noted historian A B Shirokorad details the involvement of the Danube military flotilla of the Red Army in the Vienna campaign. Russia had previously used flotillas on the Danube in its wars with Turkey and during WWI against Romanian forces. The flotilla highlighted in this book was formed in 1940.

Hermann Göring (1893 - 1946), Reichsminister für Luftfahrt und zweiter Mann hinter Hitler, hat wie keine andere NS-Größe Ämter und Machtbefugnisse angehäuft. Andreas Molitor erzählt das Leben eines Machthungrigen, der Gegner kaltblütig ausschaltete, am Holocaust mitwirkte und – von Hitler kaltgestellt – ein bizarres Luxusleben führte. In szenischen Nahaufnahmen und analytisch auf dem aktuellen...

About the tragic fates of pilots who reached the heights of glory in the Soviet Union, but for various reasons were deprived of the highest honor of their homeland, about heroes without Gold Stars.

Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration served as a Russian general. He was an ethnic Georgian and descendant of the Georgian royal family of the Bagrations. In 1812 Bagration commanded the 2nd army of the West, and though defeated at Mogilev, rejoined the main army under Barclay de Tolly, and led the left wing at the Battle of Borodino, where he received a mortal wound.

The author is a veteran of World War Two (western Front, 33rd Army, 557th PAP RGK) and took part in the Victory parade on the 24th of June 1945. From 1963 on he served in the General Staff and the MoD USSR where he actively took part in planning for arms production of arms development for the Soviet Army.

In Eight Days in May, the award-winning historian and Hitler biographer Volker Ullrich draws on an astonishing variety of sources, including diaries and letters of ordinary Germans, to narrate a society’s descent into Hobbesian chaos. In the town of Demmin in the north, residents succumbed to madness and committed mass suicide. In Berlin, Soviet soldiers raped German civilians on a...