This book by historian and writer S.E. Mikheenkov is a unique collection of soldiers' stories about the war, which the author worked on for more than thirty years. The most striking episodes, thematically arranged, form a coherent, captivating narrative about the war from the perspective of the Russian soldier. This, in the words of the poet, ‘hard-won, harsh truth of the soldiers’ will astound...

The book is a Russian translation of analysis published by the National Intelligence Council on the upcoming threats and challenges the United States and the world will face over the next few years.

The book tells about the opposition of German aircraft and the Soviet Northern Fleet and Allied convoys bound for Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. On the basis of archival materials, eyewitnesses and other documentary sources, the authors reconstruct the vast panorama of events that occurred in the Arctic from 1941 to 1945.

The book, based on extensive factual material provides a comparative analysis of the organizational structure and tactics of the German and Soviet attack aircraft in 1941-1945., And adopted them in systems of rewarding pilots. Particular attention is given to the two planes: the German Ju-87 and the Soviet Il-2. became during the Second World War is truly legendary.

Ninety years ago, the First World War ended. In Europe, this date is still celebrated as one of the main events of the 20th century, but in Russia it has been virtually forgotten. This book is a collective work of leading Soviet ‘military experts’ of the 1920s, in which former staff officers and generals of the Tsarist army examined the course and results of the recent war, analyzing their own...

A look at the tactics and operations of Blitzkrieg.

Despite the huge number of books and articles devoted to the civilization of Ancient Egypt, it retains its mysterious appeal in the eyes of modern man. Its colossal monuments, its centuries-old power structure, its literature, which describes in detail and dispassionately the complex relationships between the living and the dead, gods and people - all this interests not only specialists, but...