The publication is a detailed and most complete description of the history of the three-month battle of the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940 in the area of the Taipaleen-Yoki River (now the Burnaya River), on the easternmost flank of the Mannerheim Line. The book is based on numerous archival and documentary sources and gives a broad idea of the conditions of military life of both Soviet and...

Reprint of the first military dictionary published in 1818. The author, S. A. Tuchkov (1767-1839) was a military officer, and this dictionary is the first attempt to create a military encyclopedia.

»Als Adam grub und Eva spann, wo war denn da der Edelmann?«, fragten Hunderttausende Bauern und Bürger, die sich 1524/25 quer durch Deutschland erhoben und eine Bewegung formten, die bis heute ihresgleichen sucht. Waren die Rebellen revolutionäre Klassenkämpfer? Räuberischer Pöbel? Oder gar die Vorreiter der Menschenrechtsbewegung?

‘House on the Line of Fire’ is a story told by a fearless man who has been in prison and in high office, who knows the value of compromise and human relationships, who remained in his home until the very end, but who, even after being forced to leave, never ceased to love it. The book offers a complete and vivid picture of life in Donbas in the 21st century: clan wars and property division,...

The book ‘Deal with the Devil: German-Russian Relations between the First and Second World Wars’ is a compact and extremely engaging presentation of the history of the Russian and German peoples, filled with events of historic proportions. With captivating dynamism and literary precision, Sebastian Hafner describes the twists and turns in relations between nations that sometimes fought each...

The Soviet Navy during the Cold War experienced both victories and tragedies. The newest book by the author Nikolai Cherkashin examines explosions, collisions, catastrophes, mutinies and groundings.

This book by A. Yu. Lashkov—a Doctor of Historical Sciences and a specialist in the history of military aviation and air defense—examines the involvement of Soviet aviators and balloonists in the suppression of insurgent movements and the elimination of various anti-Soviet armed formations within the territory of the RSFSR (and later the USSR), as well as in neighboring regions, during the...

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

In March of 2022, three weeks after invading Ukraine, Russian forces bombed the shelter housed in the Donetsk Regional Academic Drama Theater, in the city of Mariupol. The bombing stands, to this day, as the single worst act of mass civilian killing of the war. This book tells the story of the group of ordinary Ukrainians--workers, teachers, actors--who built that shelter, giving succor to...