On September 1, 1939, having knocked down the border barriers, German tanks entered the territory of Poland – the Second World War began. Historians have rightly dubbed it the ‘war of motors’ – mechanized units and aviation played a decisive role in it. And yet, in essence and in its influence on the outcome of military operations, if we compare the contribution to the victory of various...

Ninety years ago, the First World War ended. In Europe, this date is still celebrated as one of the main events of the 20th century, but in Russia it has been virtually forgotten. This book is a collective work of leading Soviet ‘military experts’ of the 1920s, in which former staff officers and generals of the Tsarist army examined the course and results of the recent war, analyzing their own...

The book examines the inter-war period of European history and raises the question, if the second world war was unavoidable.

Bi-lingual edition: Russian/German. Poetry of East Prussia.

Psychological and hermeneutic analysis of Vysotsky's texts, letters, and his personality.

Full title: Voenno-promyshlennyi kompleks Kuibyshevskoi oblasti v gody velikoi otechestvennoi voiny (1941-1945 gg.) Sbornik dokumentov

This book by the renowned military historian and writer A.V. Shishov is dedicated to the military conflicts of the 20th century, from the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 to the Chechen conflict of 1991-2006. It covers all significant interstate conflicts (so-called local wars) of the past century, as well as civil wars, national liberation movements, rebellions, coups, and religious and ethnic...