The book examines the military reforms conducted under Tsar Paul I in which he tried to reshape the Russian Army closer to the model of the Prussian Army.

This book, for the first time in the national historiography, offers a complex analysis of the stages of the birth and formation of military blocs in Europe. A process driven by the superpowers and resulting in the creation of military-political organizations supporting a bi-polar world and leading to the total confrontation of the Cold War.

The book recounts the confrontation between the German air force and the air defense system of the Volga region during the Great Patriotic War. Based on numerous previously inaccessible archival materials, eyewitness accounts, and other documentary sources, the authors recreate a comprehensive panorama of events that took place in this region from 1941 to 1944.

The book by historian A.V. Shubin is dedicated to the dramatic era of the 1930s and early 1940s – an era that began with the Great Depression and ended with the Second World War. This study tells about the social processes and figures that influenced the development of civilization, about tragic coincidences and missed opportunities, and about the debates that we still have about that time,...

This book is the memory and pain of ordinary people. The testimonies of the surviving residents of the burnt villages sound like a revelation, and the reader clearly hears their voices. The publication has been reprinted several times in Belarus and has been translated into Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, English, Hungarian, Polish, Bulgarian and other languages.

The author, a well known German academic and editor at the Frankfurter Allgemine Zeitung examines the fate of those in the Hitler Youth or suppressed by the Hitler Youth.

This two volume history examines the life of Russia and its population during World War Two. Attention is paid to the effects of major battles to the surrounding areas. The principles of leadership of the armed struggle, economic confrontation of the parties, foreign policy and diplomacy of the Soviet state are reviewed. The conditions of life of all strata of the population and their...