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...

The book contains information about all main operations - both air and sea conducted by the Soviets and the Germans on a strategic level.

This book by historian and writer S.E. Mikheenkov is a unique collection of soldiers' stories about the war, which the author worked on for more than thirty years. The most striking episodes, thematically arranged, form a coherent, captivating narrative about the war from the perspective of the Russian soldier. This, in the words of the poet, ‘hard-won, harsh truth of the soldiers’ will astound...

The Great Patriotic War was not only a grandiose confrontation between the armies of the USSR and the Third Reich. It was also a duel of weapons designers – creators of armored vehicles, aircraft, ships, artillery systems, and small arms. The young and imperfect industry of the Soviet Union faced the most powerful and modern enterprises of virtually all of continental Europe, equipped with the...

'War - it is a living , human gait - to meet the enemy , toward death , toward eternity. It is human blood on the snow ... It abandoned corpses of soldiers until the spring ... It's a constant hunger when to soldier comes to the company instead of salty food thicker than water , involved on a handful of flour in the form of pale gruel . this cold in the cold and snow in the stone cellars , when...

The assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo started a chain of events that led to the beginning of World War One. It lis less clear, in the eyes of the author, as to why security was minimal for the Archduke, how dangerous was the 'Black Hand' organization and who stood to benefit from the destruction of the old man of Europe?

The publication is a detailed and most complete description of the history of the three-month battle of the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940 in the area of the Taipaleen-Yoki River (now the Burnaya River), on the easternmost flank of the Mannerheim Line. The book is based on numerous archival and documentary sources and gives a broad idea of the conditions of military life of both Soviet and...

Reprint of the first military dictionary published in 1818. The author, S. A. Tuchkov (1767-1839) was a military officer, and this dictionary is the first attempt to create a military encyclopedia.

»Als Adam grub und Eva spann, wo war denn da der Edelmann?«, fragten Hunderttausende Bauern und Bürger, die sich 1524/25 quer durch Deutschland erhoben und eine Bewegung formten, die bis heute ihresgleichen sucht. Waren die Rebellen revolutionäre Klassenkämpfer? Räuberischer Pöbel? Oder gar die Vorreiter der Menschenrechtsbewegung?

«Дом на линии огня» — это рассказ от лица бесстрашного человека, который бывал и в тюрьмах, и в высоких кабинетах, который знает цену компромиссам и человеческим отношениям, который до последнего оставался в своем доме, но, даже вынужденно уехав, не перестал его любить. Книга дает полную и яркую картину жизни Донбасса в XXI веке: клановые войны и раздел собственности, экономический расцвет и...

Книга «Сделка с дьяволом. Немецко-русские отношения в период между Первой и Второй мировыми войнами» – компактное и чрезвычайно увлекательное представление истории русского и немецкого народов, наполненное событиями исторического масштаба. С захватывающим динамизмом и литературной точностью Себастьян Хафнер описывает повороты в отношениях между нациями, которые то воевали друг с другом, то...