In this book, he examines the training of the Red Army in the prewar period to the 'future battles with the imperialists.' What were the people who led the armed forces of the USSR, what weapons they ordered the designers looked like the Soviet military doctrine, what methods to prepare for war officer corps, rank and file soldiers and reservists, how it turned out in the fields v1941-1942 years.

The publication is a detailed and most complete description of the history of the three-month battle of the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940 in the area of the Taipaleen-Yoki River (now the Burnaya River), on the easternmost flank of the Mannerheim Line. The book is based on numerous archival and documentary sources and gives a broad idea of the conditions of military life of both Soviet and...

After the release of the Russian movie 'Svolochi', many veteran-chekisty were upset with the way history of these units had been portrayed. This book attempts to set the record straight, about the role these Young Pioneers and Komsomol members played behind and on the front lines.

This book presents pieces of evidence, which – taken together – lead to an argument that goes against the grain of the established Cold War narrative. The argument is that a “long détente” existed between East and West from the 1950s to the 1980s, that it existed and lasted for good (economic, national security, societal) reasons, and that it had a profound impact on the outcome of the conflict...

What do we know about the feelings and fears of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers? In the early 1990s, Wolf-Rüdiger Osburg set out to visit the last witnesses to the war. 135 soldiers at the front gave him information and reported on the war in all its facets: relentlessly, in detail and honestly. It tells of total exhaustion, of hunger and deprivation, of the constant proximity of death,...

The author of the book, who for a long time headed the headquarters of the Border Troops of the Soviet Union, vividly and with deep knowledge describes the Afghan events that followed the April 1978 revolution and undoubtedly influenced the history of our country. The weak security of the borders of Afghanistan contributed to the strengthening and equipment of the rebel formations that used the...

It has become acceptable again to make Hitler a scapegoat in order to clean up the German past. The Hitler and spear expert Joachim Fest, Bernd Eichinger's award-winning film 'Der Untergang' and the popular television series by Guido Knopp are the key witnesses for the current rollback in the historical perspective. Will Hitler become the leader of the Germans again?