The author, a well known German academic and editor at the Frankfurter Allgemine Zeitung examines the fate of those in the Hitler Youth or suppressed by the Hitler Youth.

Vospominaniia vypusknitsy tsentral'noi zhenskoi shkoly snaiperskoi podgotovki 1944-1945. Seriia na linii fronta. Julia Konstantinovna Zhukova went to the Red Army as a volunteer at the age of 18. In 1944 she graduated from the Central Women's School of Sniper Training. For several months of hard fighting in East Prussia, as an active sniper she had went through both an offensive action and...

The book tells a story of the famous Russian family of Riabushinsky, their struggle with the government in 1917 and subsequent emigration to Paris.

The author of many books, a famous collector of legends and myths about St. Petersburg, Naum Aleksandrovich Sindalovsky, presents a unique collection of St. Petersburg folklore, which, like a magic mirror, reflected 300 years of the reign of the Romanov dynasty. It began with the curse of Marina Mniszech. But this long journey was not only marked by tragedies; many sparkling witticisms, funny...

This volume is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Russian Federation.

George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as 'the father of containment' and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. He later wrote standard histories of the relations between Russia and the Western powers.

The war diaries and experiences of ISU-152 self-propelled gun driver during the last three years of the war.

From Amazon: John Fowles gained international recognition in 1963 with his first published novel, The Collector, but his labor on what may be his greatest literary undertaking, his journals, commenced over a decade earlier. Fowles, whose works include The Maggot, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and The Ebony Tower, is among the most inventive and influential English novelists of the twentieth...

The first collected works of Academician Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989) include 'Memories' (in three volumes), a collection of articles, letters, speeches and interviews 'Anxiety and Hope' (in two volumes), as well as the first published novel-document ' Diaries of Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner (in three volumes). The first volume publishes the beginning of the documentary novel by...