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.

All that is told in this amazing, fascinating history - the absolute truth from the beginning to the end, moreover, confirmed by a number of documents and evidence. Life itself, scorched by war, brought so tightly knotted, heart-breaking story. Here, in one story, intertwined and invisible fatal bout of special services fighting against the backdrop of the grand battles of the Great Patriotic...

The author, who fought with the 46th Guard Tank Brigade, (th Guard Tank Corps, describes fighting the war driving tanks supplied by the USSR's Western Allies. Beginning his combat driving a Matilda and finally a US supplied Sherman.

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...

The author Nicholas Cherkashin collected in chronological order most acute episodes of almost half a century of confrontation in the depths of the oceans Submarine Forces U.S. and the USSR - Russia . This mutual opposition during the Cuban ( missile ) crisis and the actions of our submariners during the Arab-Israeli wars , and during the so -called 'response' ( 1983-1986 ) and the most recent...

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.