Space technology is also military technology. Developments in ballistics served not only to further the goal of space exploration, but also allowed the development of ICBMs. The author in this volume, examines some of the military/security implications of rocket design.

The author examines the golden age of the battleship.

Vospominaniia vypusknitsy tsentral'noi zhenskoi shkoly snaiperskoi podgotovki 1944-1945. Seriia na linii fronta. Julia Konstantinovna Zhukova went to the Red Army as a volunteer at the age of 18. In 1944 she graduated from the Central Women's School of Sniper Training. For several months of hard fighting in East Prussia, as an active sniper she had went through both an offensive action and...

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

General Denikin's reign, which lasted a year and a half minus three days, forms a complete, complete era in the history of the ‘second Russian turmoil.’ It is this era that Sokolov, who ‘stood close enough to General Denikin's government that the main facts of the era remain imprinted in his memory more or less accurately,’ writes about. ‘I recount what I saw and observed myself, that is,...

The Black Sea Fleet has always held a special place in the history of wars and revolutions that took place in Russia in the twentieth century. Three times: in 1920, 1941 and 1991 - Black Sea fleet proved to be on the verge of death. Twice he quickly revived and became even stronger. How did this happen? Why do we know so little about the actual events of three wars and three revolutions? Are...