The book covers the period of the 1920s and the 1930s and highlights the role played by the security organs of the VChK-OGPU to secure the security and ability of the Soviet Armed Forces to protect the national interests. The author seeks to reverse the negative image/view on the role of the agencies to strengthen the armed forces.

The book, in the author's words, seeks to combat what revisionism in the teaching and understanding of the Second World War and a diminishment of the achievements of the Red Army.

The author is a veteran of the elite Russian airborne troops. In his book, he describes not only his own career, but the service of this elite group in the Afghan war.

Тираж — всего 1000 экземпляров. Книга представляет собой систематический обзор развития пехотных войск России с момента их зарождения до наших дней. Богато иллюстрировано, содержит множество карт и фотографий.

Blitzkrieg. Now this word is familiar, probably to everyone. Short, like a shot, ringing like a flick of a bullet through the armor, clanging like the tanks of tanks - at the beginning of World War II it terrified all of Europe. 'Lightning war!' Crushing blows of the German tank wedges, rapid tank raids on the enemy's rear, grandiose 'boilers', thousands of columns of prisoners. Burning Warsaw,...

Книга посвящена легендарному антитеррористическому подразделению – группе «Альфа» и ее Героям, у каждого из которых на груди Золотая Звезда – знак высшего отличия нашей страны. Это не просто рассказ о сильных мужских характерах, о судьбах спецназа, о тяжелой доле военного человека, вынужденного каждый день чувствовать, как дышит ему в затылок смерть. Характеры и судьбы кавалеров Золотой...

Kokkinaki was perhaps the leading Soviet test pilot setting many world and Soviet records. He worked for several design bureaus, including theIlyushin Design Bureau , where he served as its chief test pilot. He also established the shortest flight route between Europe and the United States. He died in 1985.