The Berlin Wall Memorial Center on Bernauer Strasse is the main memorial site of divided Germany, located in the center of the German capital. Alongside the exhibit at the former border strip, a permanent exhibition entitled ‘1961 - 1989. The Berlin Wall’ was opened in November 2014, providing information about the political and historical context.

Hailed as the definitive book on Uber and Silicon Valley, Super Pumped is an epic story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history.

Hiroshima is the story of six human beings who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. John Hersey tells what these six -- a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest -- were doing at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. Then he follows...

Виктор Клемперер (1881–1960) был профессором французской литературы в Дрезденском университете. Как еврей, он был отстранен от своей университетской должности в 1935 году и выжил только благодаря браку с арийкой. Книга «Язык Третьего рейха», впервые опубликованная в 1957 году, возникла из убеждения Клемперера в том, что язык Третьего рейха помог создать его культуру. Как пишет Клемперер: «Не...

In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of the Communist party rule, the regime's control over scientific information, and its emphasis on economic...

In light of the current struggles in the Caucasus, the author reviews the wars of the 19th century, the struggles between the mountain tribes of the Northern Caucasus under the leadership of Imam Shamil and the forces of Tsarist Russia.

Originally published by the University of California Press in 1961, the author examines the appearance and development of mounted soldiers in Ancient Greece.

The author writes about the little-known Azerbaijani Democratic Republic and its relations with the new state of Soviet Russia. Both governments arose from the collapse of Imperial Russia in 1917.

The result of 12 years of research in the archives, this monograph presents statistical materials on the Chechens. The author has used the data to create original tables and creates a window on to the status and development of the Chechen in socio-economic terms, migration and demographic trends, taxes, land ownership and development and more.