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

The author examines the many local conflicts of the Cold War, where not just Soviet military advisers served, but also secret special troops, engaged in direct conflict. The book is the first, complete encyclopedia of these secret wars of the USSR and is based on archival documents only recently released.

In The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience as a prisoner from 2015 to 2017 in a modern-day concentration camp overseen by the Federal Security Bureau of the Russian Federation (FSB) in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk. This memoir recounts an endless ordeal of psychological and physical abuse, including torture and rape,...

Compiled by a leading Russian specialist on the Caucasus, this dictionary was not previously published - the author was a victim of Stalin's regime and died in 1941. The dictionary includes a description of the Tabasaran language and examples of Tabasaran texts compiled by the author.

The author seeks to remove one of the greatest obstacles to closer Russian-Polish relations, the legacy of the Katyn massacre of Polish prisoners on Soviet territory during the outbreak of World War Two.

Today, no one doubts the reality of the existence of secret societies. But why do they exist? What goals do they pursue? What role do they play in the life of humanity? And by what signs can we judge their presence? The author of the book offers his original interpretation of the role of secret societies in history, considering them as a kind of ‘locomotives’, provocateurs of social change and...

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...

Between 1943 and 1945 1200 Soviet tank-troopers won the Medal, Hero of the Soviet Union. In his book, former General Zhilin examines and highlights the best of the best!