Blitzkrieg. Now this word is familiar, probably to everyone. Short, like a shot, ringing like a flick of a bullet through the armor, clanging like the tanks of tanks - at the beginning of World War II it terrified all of Europe. 'Lightning war!' Crushing blows of the German tank wedges, rapid tank raids on the enemy's rear, grandiose 'boilers', thousands of columns of prisoners. Burning Warsaw,...

In his book, the author, who fought as an infantryman in the battles of the Kursk Salient, the Lviv, Vistula-Oder, and Berlin operations, recounts what he saw as a platoon commander of a tank landing force: the daily life of Red Army soldiers with their simple joys in the form of sleep and hot food, monotonous work, the desire to survive, and the constant feeling of imminent death.

In this volume, the scholar Andrei Kokoshin examines the role and place of technocrats as a socio-cultural phenomenon in contemporary societies. He examines the development of technocrats in both Russia and other countries.

The author seeks to distinguish myth from reality about Russian criminal activity in Europe.

The book tells about the opposition of German aircraft and the Soviet Northern Fleet and Allied convoys bound for Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. On the basis of archival materials, eyewitnesses and other documentary sources, the authors reconstruct the vast panorama of events that occurred in the Arctic from 1941 to 1945.

Following the imposition of Habsburg rule on Ottoman Bosnia in 1878, a new garrison was constructed in the old citadel of Trebinje. By using a micro-historical approach, this innovative book tells the story of the garrison in times of peace and war, describing the way in which the Austro-Hungarian administration rapidly transformed Trebinje into a tree-lined city dominated by the army.