The author maintains that the Russian Empire did not truly begin with Peter the Great, but rather with his father, Aleksei Mikhailovich.

This fascinating and fairly easy-to-use manual demonstrates a number of simple and enjoyable exercises designed to strengthen your baby's health. An important period of physical development begins in the first minutes of a child's life. This book tells parents in an entertaining way how to exercise with a baby to develop strength, flexibility and form good posture from an early age. These fun...

This book by the renowned military historian and writer A.V. Shishov is dedicated to the military conflicts of the 20th century, from the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 to the Chechen conflict of 1991-2006. It covers all significant interstate conflicts (so-called local wars) of the past century, as well as civil wars, national liberation movements, rebellions, coups, and religious and ethnic...

A former Austrian officer who served in the German Wehrmacht during World War Two. This book is his account of why the Germans lost the war.

The war diaries of a Russian volunteer who fought with the Serbs 1993-1999.

Pyrrhus or Pyrrhos (319/318 BC—272 BC) was a Greek general and statesman of the Hellenistic era. He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians, of the royal Aeacid house (from ca. 297 BC), and later he became King of Epirus (306-302, 297-272 BC) and Macedon (288-284, 273-272 BC). He was one of the strongest opponents of early Rome. Some of his battles, though successful, cost him heavy losses,...

Originally published by the University of California Press in 1961, the author examines the appearance and development of mounted soldiers in Ancient Greece.