The work of journalist A. Alyabyev is not only a history of the Second World War, but also an excursion into the history of the development of military aviation during that period. The author draws on a vast amount of documentary material: official reports from governments, news agencies, radio and the press, providing the opportunity to compare the viewpoints of the warring parties on the same...

The book seeks to examine the secrets of the beginnings of WWII, about which historians and eyewitnesses have argued for over 60 years.

General Claire Lee Chennault was one of the brightest and most controversial figures of World War II. Chennault was in charge of the XIV Air Force, and was famous not only for his military achievements, but also for his constant conflicts with commanders, which earned him a scandalous reputation. His memoirs about the events in the Pacific Ocean, written in a highly literary style, transform...

In 1944, Soviet military intelligence operated in new conditions: the Red Army was on the offensive, the situation was changing rapidly, and the Soviet General Staff needed more and more information about the enemy. Soviet military intelligence officers were assisted in gathering information about Nazi Germany by military intelligence officers from Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Norway, the...

Ot otriadov drevnikh slavian do massovoi armii epokhi Aleksandra II

The author of this book, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Kirill Alekseevich Evstigneev, made 296 combat sorties during the Great Patriotic War, achieving 53 victories personally and another 3 in a group (this is the fifth best result in Soviet aviation; only Kozhedub, Pokryshkin, Gulaev, and Rechkalov shot down more enemy aircraft).

The book examines the role and place of the upper military elites in the politics of the Stalinist system.

The book offers a detailed examination of the little studied military traditions of medieval Vietnam. Of particular interest is the period of the 10th to the 18th centuries, which saw many conflicts, mostly in opposing the expansion of the Chinese Empire into Indochina. The author examines the development of strategy and tactics, force organization and weapons.