The author highlights Nazi Germany's war plans to invade the Caucasus and seize the oil fields of Azeribaijan to fuel their war machine.

Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You'll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic...

Vasily Alekseyevich Maklakov, (1869 - 1957) was a Russian trial lawyer and liberal parliamentary orator, one of the leaders of the Constitutional Democratic Party and Russian Freemasonry, notable for his advocacy of a constitutional Russian state. His brother Nikolay Maklakov served as Russia's Interior Minister in 1912-15.

Based on identified trends of the armed conflict, the author has examined the nature of air, ground and naval operations in the wars of the first half of the 21st century. He has also highlighted the meaning of military operations in space and information warfare. He also examines the peculiarities of the fight with modern terrorism.

The monograph examines the history of relations between Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1933-1939. Both West Slavic states were part of the Versailles-Locarno system, objectively directed against Soviet Russia. The main task of the diplomatic departments of both countries during this period was to avoid the possible movement of the ‘German factor’ to the East. Czechoslovakia was a bourgeois...

The book by aviation and rocket technology historian M.D. Evtifiev is dedicated to little-known pages in the history of Soviet jet aviation. It tells for the first time about outstanding aircraft designers, engineers and testers who selflessly worked on the creation of domestic jet aviation. The author traces in detail all stages of the birth of the first Soviet jet aircraft and their engines,...

About the Generals of 1812: Vorontsov, Davydov, Ermolaev, Zakrevskii and others.

In 1943, the battles on the Soviet-German front were the most brutal. The German command sought to regain the strategic initiative. The Battle of Kursk was to solve this problem. Carrying out the tasks of the Supreme Command Headquarters, Soviet military intelligence conducted hundreds of secret operations, trying to promptly reveal the plans of Hitler and his generals. Some of the operations...