Never before have Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky written documentary prose - only fiction. We never kept diaries. But the invasion of Ukraine changed everything. These diaries are not the fantasy that Oldie is used to. A different language, a different style - to match the circumstances.

Никогда раньше Дмитрий Громов и Олег Ладыженский не писали документальную прозу — только художественную. Никогда не вели дневники. Но вторжение в Украину всё изменило. Эти дневники — не фантастика, привычная для Олди. Иной язык, иной стиль — под стать обстоятельствам. Эти заметки писались в обстреливаемых городах, подвалах и бомбоубежищах, эвакуационных поездах и автобусах, на съёмных...

Was wissen wir über Gefühle und Ängste unserer Großväter und Urgroßväter? Anfang der 90er Jahre hat Wolf-Rüdiger Osburg sich aufgemacht, die letzten Zeugen des Krieges aufzusuchen. 135 Frontsoldaten gaben ihm Auskunft und berichten über den Krieg in all seinen Facetten: schonungslos, detailliert und ehrlich. Erzählt wird von totaler Erschöpfung, von Hunger und Entbehrung, von der ständigen Nähe...

In 1904, doctor Vikenty Veresaev was called up for military service, assigned to a mobile field hospital and sent to the east. He saw the battle on the Shah River, the Battle of Mukden and peace negotiations. From the first days, Veresaev plunged into the bloody chaos of military operations, witnessed the incompetence and indifference of commanders and officers, as well as the heroism of...

Serhii Dukhno spent 25 days in the Azovstal bunker with his family. ‘Azovstal’ is his native enterprise, the whole family worked at this plant. At first they didn't think of running away from the city, but when a shell hit the playground near their house, leaving a huge hole, they decided to leave. Due to constant shelling, they could not use their car and reached the familiar and reliable...

The novel by Raevskaia was first published in New York, in 1992. This novel is a story of her life. A story of one family. Russia-America, 1930-1990. - That what is written under the title. I wrote this book for my grandchildren. So they would learn about our Jewish roots, our life THERE and our first steps HERE…

V Abakumov, V Stalin v otkrovennykh rasskazakh sledovatelia po osobo vazhnym delam MGB SSSR. Abakumov was director of SMERSH during WW Two and the director of the MGB from 1946 until his arrest in 1951 under Stalin's orders. Executed in 1954 - after Stalin's death!