Bruce Hoffman, the director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, has written a clear summary of some of the major historical trends in international terrorism. He makes careful distinctions between the motivations that drive political (or ethno-nationalist) terrorism and religious terrorism, and he also shows why the rise of religious terrorism, coupled with the...

This book by the renowned Russian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences V. Telitsyn, is the first to describe the history of the Spanish Civil War without ideological bias, which fundamentally distinguishes it from similar publications that appeared in the USSR. It is a truthful and unembellished account of Soviet military specialists and advisors fulfilling their patriotic duty abroad, a...

Vitalii Dostenk professor Voenno-morskoi akademii, kapitan pervogo ranga.

The monograph explores the industrial production and cadre politics of the Volga-Viatsk region of Russia in the pre-War period through the end of the Second World War.

In the series Militaria antiqua. The book examines the military-political history of the Bosporan Kingdom through the first three centuries AD. During this time, the former Roman province prospered as a client state of Rome. Its king led campaigns against and defeated the Scyths and consolidated power around the Black Sea, including such modern day cities such as Kerch.

From Publishers Weekly: Its first half is a narrative and analysis of the military campaign that overthrew Saddam Hussein's government in three weeks during the spring of 2003. Clark, a highly visible commentator during the operation, describes the U.S. ability to synchronize firepower and maneuvers as decisive in crushing an Iraqi army whose fighting power had been significantly...

Published for the first time, often from family archives, the book presents the memoirs of Generals F K Gershel'man and D I Gurko.

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