In Hotel Exile, Jane Rogoyska evokes in novelistic prose the emotions, dilemmas, and fates of the hotel's patrons. In the 1930s, Europe's bohemian artists and political activists, forced to flee their homes when Hitler came to power, met at the Lutetia with the hope of forming an alternative government. But when war came, Paris was occupied, and the hotel became the headquarters of the German...

Ninety years ago, the First World War ended. In Europe, this date is still celebrated as one of the main events of the 20th century, but in Russia it has been virtually forgotten. This book is a collective work of leading Soviet ‘military experts’ of the 1920s, in which former staff officers and generals of the Tsarist army examined the course and results of the recent war, analyzing their own...

This book by historian and writer S.E. Mikheenkov is a unique collection of soldiers' stories about the war, which the author worked on for more than thirty years. The most striking episodes, thematically arranged, form a coherent, captivating narrative about the war from the perspective of the Russian soldier. This, in the words of the poet, ‘hard-won, harsh truth of the soldiers’ will astound...

The *Military Dictionary* by Sergei Alekseevich Tuchkov (1767–1839)—a Russian military commander, statesman, and man of letters—represents the first attempt at a military encyclopedia in Russia. It is not only a historical artifact but also an important source for the study of Russian military history in the early 19th century.

This study is devoted to the problems of ensuring security in the modern world. In the new conditions associated with the globalization of the world economy, which have both their positive and negative aspects, the constantly growing gap in the levels of development of individual countries, national and religious intolerance at the interstate level and within individual federal entities, etc.,...

The author examines the forces of General Vlasov that fought with Nazi Germany against the Soviet regime.

The Great Patriotic War was not only a grandiose confrontation between the armies of the USSR and the Third Reich. It was also a duel of weapons designers – creators of armored vehicles, aircraft, ships, artillery systems, and small arms. The young and imperfect industry of the Soviet Union faced the most powerful and modern enterprises of virtually all of continental Europe, equipped with the...

Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration served as a Russian general. He was an ethnic Georgian and descendant of the Georgian royal family of the Bagrations. In 1812 Bagration commanded the 2nd army of the West, and though defeated at Mogilev, rejoined the main army under Barclay de Tolly, and led the left wing at the Battle of Borodino, where he received a mortal wound.

In this book, the authors define the peculiarities of the high-tech industries of the military-industrial complex, the basic organizational and economic mechanisms to ensure implementation of programs and plans for the creation and production of military products, outlined the conceptual framework for the assessment and management of risk in their validation and implementation, developed new...

'War - it is a living , human gait - to meet the enemy , toward death , toward eternity. It is human blood on the snow ... It abandoned corpses of soldiers until the spring ... It's a constant hunger when to soldier comes to the company instead of salty food thicker than water , involved on a handful of flour in the form of pale gruel . this cold in the cold and snow in the stone cellars , when...

Series: Velikaia Otechestvennaia: Neizvestnaia voina. The author examines several controversial questions about World War Two on the Russian front. The major question that has been debated, could the USSR have stopped the Germans before they reached Moscow and Stalingrad?