The book examines the military art and arms of the Central Asian nomads, the Huns from their appearance and threat to the Chinese in the 3rd century BC (Xiongnu) to their final movement into Europe in the 4th century under Attila defeating the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths, which brought them to the frontier of the Roman Empire.

100 Great Politicians of all times, their biographies and fascinating stories.

The author of the book flew 997 confirmed night missions in an open cockpit of a Po-2. Flying at low altitudes, often too low to safely parachute out of a damaged aircraft, the pilots of these machines often flew nighttime low level bombing raids or reconaissance missions.

The author, a well known specialist on the Armenian genocide, explores documents held in Austria on the 1915 tragedy.

The 1930s constitute one of the tragic periods of Soviet history. In fact, at that time the country was in a state of civil war. The confrontation between the ‘upper classes and the lower classes’ can be considered an indisputable fact, and the result of this confrontation were millions of people – arrested, shot, exiled. Numerous trials of wreckers, spies, saboteurs, i.e. ‘enemies of the...

The author examines the deadly battles on the SW Front form July to September 1941. Part of these campaigns was the attempt to defend and hold Kiev against the advancing German Army. The battle for Kiev ended tragically for the Red Army, as thousands of soldiers were surrounded by the Germans. The book includes more than 300 photos, maps and other illustrations.

The second book by the famous military historian I.B. Moshchansky is dedicated to two important episodes of the Great Patriotic War - the defense of Crimea and the Battle of Stalingrad. Unlike the Battle of Stalingrad, the defense of Crimea in 1941-1942 did not have a decisive impact on the course of the Great Patriotic War, but the skills of conducting battles, the organization of troops, and...

The last years of WWII, the author traces the movements and battles of the Red Army to the gates of Belgrade in the Balkans.

1956 - the middle of the Soviet era, the XXth Congress and Khruschev's denunciation of Stalin and his cult of personality, the beginning of the post-Stalin 'thaw.' An amazing look at this critical year in Soviet history.

The author of this book, Hero of the Soviet Union, Honored Military Pilot of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Reshetnikov, during the Great Patriotic War, made 307 combat sorties, bombed Konigsberg, was shot down twice - by anti-aircraft fire and enemy fighters (and the second time, having jumped from a burning plane with a parachute, landed on a minefield and miraculously remained alive), but...