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.

‘Attention, Tigers!’ - these words, pronounced in various languages by soldiers of the armies of the anti-Hitler coalition, made hearts beat faster, if not from horror, then from the awareness of a mortal threat. At these moments, the soldiers' minds were not filled with the image of a ferocious striped cat, but with the idea of an invulnerable steel giant machine, spewing fire and death....

Toponymic reference work for the Republic of Mari El.