They are a systematic presentation of the facts of the age-old confrontation between two borderline positions: the will on the part of our ancestors and modern Ukrainians, and slavery, which Russia has been the bearer of for more than one century in a row. The authors of the articles are significant people for modern Ukraine: doctor of legal sciences, professor Natalya Krestovska; writer,...

As the Americans say, freedom is not for free. So sooner or later the enemy, who for centuries pretended to be a ‘brother’ and a ‘liberator’, had to shed the blood of Ukrainians. And we will pay the ‘bill’. Therefore, this war became one of the phases of the formation of Ukraine, because you have to fight both with the occupier and with prejudices. She showed how much we still have to do and...

On February 24, 2022, the writer Andrii Kurkov did not write anything. And in the next few days too. An ethnic Russian who had spent his whole life in Kyiv faced the same danger as other Ukrainians. Because in his worldview, behavior and attitude to reality, the worldview and behavior of the Ukrainian Cossacks of the 16th century prevails, when Ukraine was not yet part of the Russian Empire,...

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...

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...

Sonntag, 27. Februar 2022. Olaf Scholz tritt im Bundestag ans Rednerpult: Zeitenwende. An diesem Tag beginnt das Buch von Christian Schweppe. Der Journalist hat sich an die Fersen derjenigen geheftet, die des Kanzlers Worte in Taten übersetzen müssen: Minister, Abgeordnete, Militärs. Er fährt in Munitionsdepots und auf alte Militärflugplätze. Er wertet geheime Papiere aus, taucht tief ein in...

In Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns, Artem Chapeye reveals his war, intimate and senseless, withholding nothing about his motivations, his nightmares, his new relationship with the world. Here one man, a pacifist turned fighter, a story writer turned soldier, a father and husband, considers the reasons for and reactions to war on a very personal level.

»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...

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...

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...