From Publishers Weekly. A lively, fact-packed account of China's spectacular, 30-year transformation from economic shambles following Mao's Cultural Revolution to burgeoning market superpower, this book offers a torrent of statistics, case studies and anecdotes to tell a by now familiar but still worrisome story succinctly.

The book recounts the confrontation between the German air force and the air defense system of the Volga region during the Great Patriotic War. Based on numerous previously inaccessible archival materials, eyewitness accounts, and other documentary sources, the authors recreate a comprehensive panorama of events that took place in this region from 1941 to 1944.

A publication of the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies. Press run 350 copies.

Olbia was one of the main centers of Greek colonization of the Northern coast of the Black Sea. This book traces the development of this thriving city and its military campaigns against both the forces of Alexander the Great and against the Scythians. Eventually falling under Roman control, the area was abandoned in the 4th century AD. The author uses descriptions of the city written by...

A study on the use of Soviet airpower during the massive battle of Kursk.

The book examines the history and contemporary role played on the battlefield by tank/armor units.

Panzer IV—that was the name under which this combat vehicle was virtually unknown to the soldiers and commanders of the Red Army. Even now, 60 years after the end of the Great Patriotic War, the combination of the German words ‘Panzer Vier’ still baffles many. Then, as now, this tank is better known by its ‘Russified’ name, the T-IV, which is not used anywhere outside of our country.

The Black Sea Fleet has always held a special place in the history of wars and revolutions that took place in Russia in the twentieth century. Three times: in 1920, 1941 and 1991 - Black Sea fleet proved to be on the verge of death. Twice he quickly revived and became even stronger. How did this happen? Why do we know so little about the actual events of three wars and three revolutions? Are...