The book examines Russia's failed attempts at creating an overseas Empire similar to Great Britain or France.

An air battle tactic first used in 1914 (by a Russian pilot), ramming the enemy's aircraft with your own was a last-ditch effort to stop a bombing raid. Russian pilots used this tactic over 1000 times during World War Two - often if their airplane was already damaged or out of ammunition. Unlike a kamikaze, these were not considered suicide missions, as the pilot might try to bail out after...

The 1930s constitute one of the tragic periods of Soviet history. In fact, at that time the country was in a state of civil war. The confrontation between the ‘upper classes and the lower classes’ can be considered an indisputable fact, and the result of this confrontation were millions of people – arrested, shot, exiled. Numerous trials of wreckers, spies, saboteurs, i.e. ‘enemies of the...

riveting, gritty accounts of some of the greatest German tank commanders, including Michael Wittmann, Hans Bolter, Hermann Bix, and others

All the works included in this collection are dedicated to the work of intelligence services during the First World War and were written by employees of these services. For Basil Thomson, head of the Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department during the First World War, there were almost no secrets that he was not privy to. Throughout the four years of the war, he was in constant contact...

The author examines the history of power struggles within the Soviet leadership for supremacy.

The author examines the history of the Russian volunteer movement from 1824-1941, Russian citizens or immigrants fighting with foreign armies. In particular the book highlights Russian volunteers fighting in the English-Boer war (1898-1902), Paraguay-Bolivia (1932-1935), the Balkans in the late 19th century, China (1924-1940) and more.

The collection presents documents on the activities of the SVAG Directorate for the Study of German Scientific and Technical Achievements, as well as other Soviet institutions and departments in Germany for the study and use of German scientific and technical achievements and 'high' technologies in the interests of the USSR. This is the first time that documents have been published in this way....