В книге рассматривается история русского добровольческого движения с 1824 по 1941 год. Впервые детально описано участие в войнах и вооруженных конфликтах XIX - начала XX века русских белоэмигрантов, а также советских военнослужащих, воевавших в рядах иностранных армий.  В частности, освещена роль русских добровольцев в Англо-бурской (1899-1902) и Парагвайско-боливийской (1932-1935)...

All the works included in this collection are dedicated to the work of intelligence services during the First World War and were written by employees of these services. For Basil Thomson, head of the Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department during the First World War, there were almost no secrets that he was not privy to. Throughout the four years of the war, he was in constant contact...

riveting, gritty accounts of some of the greatest German tank commanders, including Michael Wittmann, Hans Bolter, Hermann Bix, and others

30-е годы XX века составляют один из трагических периодов советской истории. Фактически в это время страна находилась в состоянии гражданской войны. Противостояние ‘верхов, и низов’ можно считать неоспоримым фактом, а результатом этого противостояния были миллионы людей - арестованных, расстрелянных, сосланных. Свою лепту вносили и многочисленные процессы над вредителями, шпионами,...

The author of the book began the war as a tank commander (KV-1S) and then served as the commander of a series of self-propelled artillery units (SU-122, SU-85) and ended the war commanding a T-34-85. He fought from Stalingrad to Koenigsberg.

In the present work, in fact the first time, a description of all military campaigns Russian sailing fleet of more than 160 years: the war for Tsar Peter I and the Azov campaign to Russian squadrons to the shores of the United States during the Civil War between North and South.

The author of the book is a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, who served with his battery from Leningrad to Berlin. ‘I had already adapted to firing for effect with the entire battery without preliminary sighting. This time I quickly ‘caught’ my bursts, made some adjustments, and switched to firing at the target with rapid fire. The first salvos sent fountains of black, greasy earth and fire...