On February 24, 2022, Valery Zaluzhny, while giving orders, uttered the words that became a symbol of the Ukrainian resistance: ‘This country rests on our shoulders.’ An iron general, a legendary figure, Hero of Ukraine, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (2021–2024), a military leader who will be remembered by history as the man who thwarted the Russian ‘blitzkrieg’ plan and...

Alexander Svechin was the leading theorists of military thought and one of the greatest strategists of the beginning of the XX Century and in the history of Russian military tradition.

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...

Translated from the German. An eyewitness account from a German war correspondent.

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.

One of the most complete biographies of this military leader, who began his career in Kolchak's army and later helped break the siege of Leningrad and to liberate Estonia from the Germans.

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 book offered to readers is devoted to completely different operations of the Second World War: the occupation of Denmark and Norway in April-June 1940, the battles in Southern Europe in 1940-1941, as well as the fighting in the North Caucasus in the spring of 1943. In three theaters of military operations remote from each other, the armies of different states were confronting each other....

Voenno-Istoricheskaia biblioteka. Cherno-belye fotografii.

The book by a group of authors from the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences is based on the latest Russian and foreign archival documents and supplements and deepens our knowledge of the Great Patriotic War. The publication contains sensational documents that reveal the reasons for the belated bringing of our troops to combat readiness at the beginning of the war.