Published by the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, this book examines the causes and character of the war and the process in which a local conflict is escalated into an international conflict. Of particular interest to the author is the role and activities of the United Nations.

The author re-examines the Northern War of 1700-1720 between Peter the Great and Karl the XII and its (mis)representation in Russian history.

In this groundbreaking book, historian Götz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer is as shocking as it is persuasive: by engaging in a campaign of theft on an almost unimaginable scale-and by channeling the proceeds into generous social programs-Hitler literally bought his people's consent.

Evgeny Ivanovich Fokin served in a reconnaissance company from May 1943. He repeatedly participated in capturing enemy prisoners (‘languages’) at the front lines and in the enemy's rear. A special chapter in the author's military biography is his participation in a daring operation by a special detachment to save crucial facilities in Krivoy Rog in February 1944. E.I. Fokin vividly and...

A history of the Second World War from both Russian and foreign sources. The author is a well known historian and professor.

From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka’s first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist opposed to fascism. A non-conformist, bi-sexual feminist, she was way ahead of her time. With the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, her home became a central meeting place for Jewish...

The memoirs of O.G. Ivanovsky are one of the rare books written by officers of the Soviet military counterintelligence 'SMERSH'. The author frankly writes about the attitude in the troops towards the Chekists of SMERSH, about the methods of operational work of military counterintelligence at its initial level, and about the battles, campaigns, and raids of the cavalry regiment in which he was...

The author writes that the end of the Cold War lead to hope of a more stable world. But the NATO bloc ignored Moscow's protest's, expanded eastward towards Russia's borders. Only with the rise of Putin did hope appear about Russia's resurgence.

Hermann Göring (1893 - 1946), Reichsminister für Luftfahrt und zweiter Mann hinter Hitler, hat wie keine andere NS-Größe Ämter und Machtbefugnisse angehäuft. Andreas Molitor erzählt das Leben eines Machthungrigen, der Gegner kaltblütig ausschaltete, am Holocaust mitwirkte und – von Hitler kaltgestellt – ein bizarres Luxusleben führte. In szenischen Nahaufnahmen und analytisch auf dem aktuellen...

An analysis of the origins of the war, tactics and strategy during the war and its aftermath. The author was himself an active participant in the war.

In Eight Days in May, the award-winning historian and Hitler biographer Volker Ullrich draws on an astonishing variety of sources, including diaries and letters of ordinary Germans, to narrate a society’s descent into Hobbesian chaos. In the town of Demmin in the north, residents succumbed to madness and committed mass suicide. In Berlin, Soviet soldiers raped German civilians on a...