In Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns, Artem Chapeye reveals his war, intimate and senseless, withholding nothing about his motivations, his nightmares, his new relationship with the world. Here one man, a pacifist turned fighter, a story writer turned soldier, a father and husband, considers the reasons for and reactions to war on a very personal level.

The second half of the 20th Century was marked by local conflicts: Korea, Vietnam, Falkland Islands, the Persian Gulf, etc. In each of these conflicts, naval forces played a critical role.

This book by the renowned Russian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences V. Telitsyn, is the first to describe the history of the Spanish Civil War without ideological bias, which fundamentally distinguishes it from similar publications that appeared in the USSR. It is a truthful and unembellished account of Soviet military specialists and advisors fulfilling their patriotic duty abroad, a...

The authors examine several unique and unusual weapons developed by the Germans during World War Two.

The book examines the philosophical and legal concept of war and the gight against international terrorism in different democracies. The crisis of democracies on issues of war and peace. The essence and nature of wars waged by democratic states. Methods of warfare employed by democratic states. Civilizations and wars: history and modernity. The humanization of military policy and military...

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In 1968, North Korean forces seized the USS Pueblo, an intelligence gathering vessel off the coast of Korea. One of the first books published in Russia to seriously exam this dangerous moment of the Cold War. What secrets did the KGB gain?

Joachim Wieder's book is the most vivid and reliable account of the Wehrmacht's Stalingrad catastrophe. It consists of two parts. The first is a collection of direct personal impressions of a man who survived the tragedy, and the second is an attempt at a critical analysis of the role of German military commanders in the Stalingrad disaster – Field Marshals Paulus and Manstein, and General...

The volume contains discussion of Russian military history, Russian national security and more.

War... This word is associated with many contradictory, sometimes repulsive images. It's not only the thunder of battles, lightning-fast attacks, bravura marches and victory parades, but also rows of chimneys in burnt-out villages, ‘death trenches,’ mass graves, the roar of collapsing buildings, the groans of mutilated, dying people, and fear in the eyes of children. War is the stench of fires...