This book by the renowned military historian and writer A.V. Shishov is dedicated to the military conflicts of the 20th century, from the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 to the Chechen conflict of 1991-2006. It covers all significant interstate conflicts (so-called local wars) of the past century, as well as civil wars, national liberation movements, rebellions, coups, and religious and ethnic...

A former Austrian officer who served in the German Wehrmacht during World War Two. This book is his account of why the Germans lost the war.

The war diaries of a Russian volunteer who fought with the Serbs 1993-1999.

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?

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...

Analyzing a wide range of sources, studies conducted by domestic and foreign historians and political scientists, the author reveals the process of developing ideological concepts by extremist forces and organizations in the countries of the East. Particular attention is paid to the ideology of Islam on the socio-political development of Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey and some neighboring countries...

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

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.,...

Beslan is another step into hell. This is our world, revealed to the astonished eyes of children, who have seen what we really are. Blind and cruel, deceitful and cold, perfecting our machines, our computers, but not ourselves. What is unique about this book? After all, one might ask: well, another book about death, about an unbearable tragedy?! No, it is not so. The emotional uniqueness of...

Rear Admiral Nikolai Belorukov of the Soviet Navy, awarded the Orders of the Red Banner, Nakhimov Second Class, and the Red Star for his combat service, recounts his service in the Black Sea Fleet during World War II. After graduating from naval school, he was initially appointed navigator of the submarine ‘M-53,’ then senior assistant commander of ‘S-31,’ and in May 1942 he took command of...