Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war-and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated.

The Berlin Wall Memorial Center on Bernauer Strasse is the main memorial site of divided Germany, located in the center of the German capital. Alongside the exhibit at the former border strip, a permanent exhibition entitled ‘1961 - 1989. The Berlin Wall’ was opened in November 2014, providing information about the political and historical context.

Hailed as the definitive book on Uber and Silicon Valley, Super Pumped is an epic story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history.

Hiroshima is the story of six human beings who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. John Hersey tells what these six -- a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest -- were doing at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. Then he follows...

LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii: Victor Klemperers Analyse der Sprache des Nationalsozialismus und ihrer Wirkungsmacht ist ein Meisterwerk der Geschichtsschreibung. Zugleich ist es ein historisches Dokument ersten Ranges von der Selbstrettung eines Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftlers in hoffnungsloser Zeit. Die Ausgabe von Elke Fröhlich erschließt den Text, seinen zeitgeschichtlichen...

Ця книга є першою історією Чорнобильської катастрофи від вибуху 26 квітня 1986 року до закриття станції у грудні 2000-го. Чим для України був Чорнобиль? Національною трагедією, величезною психологічною травмою, важкою ношею для економіки. Чорнобиль вибухнув не тільки через помилки персоналу, нехтування правилами безпеки і проблемами з конструкцією реактора, але також через систему, яка...

The author is a well known specialist on the history of Albania and international relations in the Balkans. The volume is the first academic investigation at the problems of Albania in the 20th century. The author makes great use of archives in Albania, Bulgaria, Italy, the USSR/Russia and Yugoslavia.

This massive work by the German historian Johann Droysen is still, after 150 years, one of the standard works on the rise and fall of Hellenism. Beginning with the campaigns and conquests of Alexander the Great and ending with the collapse of the Hellenistic outposts, such as Ptolemaic Egypt and the rise of the new Roman empire.

The book is dedicated to little-studied, but extremely dramatic pages of the history of the Civil War and partisan struggle in Siberia and the East with the participation of the Siberian Cossack army. This story is quite comparable to what happened on the 'quiet Don' or the 'free Kuban'. The author describes mainly the military side of events, relying on documents from the Cossack funds of a...

One of the first books to examine the history of Iran in the 20th century. The author especially examines the relations between Iran and Russia and other European and Arab states.

In light of the current struggles in the Caucasus, the author reviews the wars of the 19th century, the struggles between the mountain tribes of the Northern Caucasus under the leadership of Imam Shamil and the forces of Tsarist Russia.