Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You'll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic...

Vasily Alekseyevich Maklakov, (1869 - 1957) was a Russian trial lawyer and liberal parliamentary orator, one of the leaders of the Constitutional Democratic Party and Russian Freemasonry, notable for his advocacy of a constitutional Russian state. His brother Nikolay Maklakov served as Russia's Interior Minister in 1912-15.

Based on identified trends of the armed conflict, the author has examined the nature of air, ground and naval operations in the wars of the first half of the 21st century. He has also highlighted the meaning of military operations in space and information warfare. He also examines the peculiarities of the fight with modern terrorism.

The book examines the relations between Poland and Czechoslovakia in the Inter-war period (1933-1939).

The book details the development and history of jet aviation in the USSR. The author examines the aviation design bureaus, engineers and researchers working on these first designs. Lots of technical details and insights.

About the Generals of 1812: Vorontsov, Davydov, Ermolaev, Zakrevskii and others.

In 1943, the battles on the Soviet-German front were the most brutal. The German command sought to regain the strategic initiative. The Battle of Kursk was to solve this problem. Carrying out the tasks of the Supreme Command Headquarters, Soviet military intelligence conducted hundreds of secret operations, trying to promptly reveal the plans of Hitler and his generals. Some of the operations...

Russia has a long history of political police and investigators - from the III Department, Tsarist Okhrana, ChK, NKVD and the KGB.