The book examines the military art and arms of the Central Asian nomads, the Huns from their appearance and threat to the Chinese in the 3rd century BC (Xiongnu) to their final movement into Europe in the 4th century under Attila defeating the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths, which brought them to the frontier of the Roman Empire.

In 1943, the battles on the Soviet-German front were the most brutal. The German command sought to regain the strategic initiative. The Battle of Kursk was to solve this problem. Carrying out the tasks of the Supreme Command Headquarters, Soviet military intelligence conducted hundreds of secret operations, trying to promptly reveal the plans of Hitler and his generals. Some of the operations...

The book contains 23 portraits of famous spies. A dry list of names will honor any intelligence agency in the world. All those whose lives are presented in the book - from the adjutant to Colonel Abel Chernysheva, - are included in the narrow range, which professionals call themselves short word 'elite.'

The book is dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Lake Khasan, fought in 1938 between the Red Army and the Japanese Imperial Army. The Russian commander in the battle, Vasilly Blucher was later blamed for the loss and executed.

From the archives of the SVR detailing operations against English intelligence officers from the 1930s to after WWII - in Europe and the Middle East.

The book examines the military reforms conducted under Tsar Paul I in which he tried to reshape the Russian Army closer to the model of the Prussian Army.

This book, for the first time in the national historiography, offers a complex analysis of the stages of the birth and formation of military blocs in Europe. A process driven by the superpowers and resulting in the creation of military-political organizations supporting a bi-polar world and leading to the total confrontation of the Cold War.