The author is a veteran of World War Two (western Front, 33rd Army, 557th PAP RGK) and took part in the Victory parade on the 24th of June 1945. From 1963 on he served in the General Staff and the MoD USSR where he actively took part in planning for arms production of arms development for the Soviet Army.

The book examines the role and place of the upper military elites in the politics of the Stalinist system.

The author of this book, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Kirill Alekseevich Evstigneev, made 296 combat sorties during the Great Patriotic War, achieving 53 victories personally and another 3 in a group (this is the fifth best result in Soviet aviation; only Kozhedub, Pokryshkin, Gulaev, and Rechkalov shot down more enemy aircraft).

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...

Does Sevastopol Fortress have its secrets? Alas, all these solid work only darkened the picture of the two defenses of Sevastopol. Still remain unclear dozens of important issues. Could, for example, the Russian Navy in 1854 to attack the overloaded landing Anglo-French squadron, or samozatoplenie our ships was inevitable? Is it true that Admiral Oktyabrsky entire 1941 war with the Italian...

O.I.Gubarev's book - the result of years of research problems hijackings and sabotage bomb in the world of civil aviation. The book is written based on various domestic and foreign sources, which highlights the issue of air terrorism and counter-terrorism. The author has succeeded in an interesting way to describe the events of the first hijackings in the 1930s before the terrorist attacks...

General Claire Lee Chennault was one of the brightest and most controversial figures of World War II. Chennault was in charge of the XIV Air Force, and was famous not only for his military achievements, but also for his constant conflicts with commanders, which earned him a scandalous reputation. His memoirs about the events in the Pacific Ocean, written in a highly literary style, transform...

This book by the renowned writer and Captain 1st Rank Vladimir Shigin is the first to compile fascinating information concerning sea ghosts, superstitions, omens, mysterious marine UFOs, and other unexplained phenomena. It also explores how the names of ships mystically influenced their fates. Furthermore, based on unique documents from the Main Staff of the Navy and the Naval Archive, the...

The author seeks to expose and inform the reader about little known facts from World War Two.