The author examines and seeks to understand how Cossacks ended up fighting alongside German forces against the USSR.

The author highlights Nazi Germany's war plans to invade the Caucasus and seize the oil fields of Azeribaijan to fuel their war machine.

Splits in the beginning of the century Russian army into two - white and red generals eventually destroyed Russian statehood and themselves. At the end of the century the army, this time Soviet, split again, and again the sad result was the loss of the state. In both cases, the favorite weapon of the generals were denunciations and treachery, perjury and defamation.

Series: Rossiia zabytaia i neizvesntnaia.

The author was born in 1932 and survved the Blokade of Leningrad during World War II.

The book examines the tactical role played by saboteurs operating behind German lines during World War Two.

In his book, noted historian A B Shirokorad details the involvement of the Danube military flotilla of the Red Army in the Vienna campaign. Russia had previously used flotillas on the Danube in its wars with Turkey and during WWI against Romanian forces. The flotilla highlighted in this book was formed in 1940.