Russian War Memoirs

Gunter K. Koschorrek was a machine-gunner on the Russian front in WWII. He wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on. As keeping a diary was strictly forbidden, he sewed the pages into the lining of his thick winter coat and deposited them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing, and it was when he was reunited with his daughter in America some 40 years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow.

At a huge cost, the Red Army and the civilian population of Leningrad ultimately endured a bitter 900-day siege, struggling against constant bombing, shelling, and starvation. Throughout the siege, Soviet forces tried to break the German lines and restore contact with the garrison. To Besiege a City charts the first of these offensives which began in January 1942 and was followed by repeated assaults.

It was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin - wildly flamboyant and sublimely talented - was the love of her life and her co-ruler. Together they seized Ukraine and Crimea, defining the Russian empire to this day. Their affair was so tumultuous that they negotiated an arrangement to share power, leaving Potemkin free to love his beautiful nieces, and Catherine her young male favourites.

In the summer of 1975, 17-year-old Eva Dillon's family was living in New Delhi when her father was exposed as a CIA spy. Eva had long believed that her father was a US State Department employee. She had no idea that he was handling the CIA's highest ranking double agent - Dmitri Fedorovich Polyakov, a Soviet general whose code name was TOPHAT. Dillon's father and Polyakov had a close friendship that went back years, to their first meeting in Burma in the mid-1960s.

He was the general who triumphed over Napoleon's Grande Armee during the Patriotic War of 1812, not merely restoring national pride but securing national identity. Many Russians consider Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Golenischev-Kutuzov the greatest figure of the 19th century, ahead of Pushkin, Tchaikovsky, even Tolstoy himself. As award-winning author Alexander Mikaberidze shows in this fascinating, often startling, and wholly humanizing new biography, Kutuzov's story is far more compelling and complex than the myths that have encased him.

Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms provides the first comprehensive account of what was once hailed by a leading American newspaper as the greatest spy story of World War II. This dramatic yet little-known saga, replete with telephone taps, kidnappings, and police surveillance, centres on the furtive escapades of Tyler Kent, a handsome, womanising 28-year-old Ivy League graduate who doubles as a US Embassy code clerk and Soviet agent.

Their wings were weak, their talons broken…yet they flew the Soviets into winning the war against the Nazis. They were ignored, laughed at, and forced to do chores beneath their ranks. Why? They were the "weaker" gender. Despite being capable, they were initially denied entry into combat. And when they did enlist, their treatment only worsened: They were assigned worn-out uniforms and left to the mercy of rusted equipment on the battlefield. These adversities didn’t stop the Soviet female fighters from going ahead and showing unprecedented excellence in warfare.

Prince Alexander Sergeevich Obolensky made his name on a cold January day at Twickenham in 1936, his achievements captured for posterity by the newsreels of the time. On his England debut, having already scored one exhilarating try, the striking blond winger collected a pass on the right and, path blocked, veered left at such a pace that a line of opponents were left grasping at thin air. It was a historic try, unrivalled in skill and speed - and it inspired England's first ever victory over the All Blacks.

Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and 1940s. The head of music at Paramount, nominated for Academy Awards, he then went on to produce his own films with Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and others. But as J. Edgar Hoover would discover, these successes were a cover for one of the most incredible espionage tales in the history of the Cold War-Boris Morros also worked for Russian intelligence. Morros's assignments took him to the White House, the Vatican, and deep behind the Iron Curtain.

В центре рассказа «Кремулятора» находится Петр Нестеренко — дворянин, офицер Первой мировой войны и участник Белого движения, ставший агентом НКВД в Париже и первым директором Московского крематория. В июне 1941 года Нестеренко был арестован, а его история стала отголоском воспоминаний из его личных дневников и архивных документов.

Владимир Агранович – режиссер-документалист, военный корреспондент, автор документального фильма Донбасс. Признанный и художественного сериала о Донбассе Мобилизация. В основе текстов В. Аграновича лежат реальные события 2014 года, происходящие на Донбассе. Текст, родившийся из личных бесед с участниками событий, является важным свидетельством сегодняшнего дня. "Это повесть о запредельном мужестве. Отец и крестный оставили прошлую жизнь позади, чтобы совершить что-то значимое во имя общей цели. Написать эту книгу о борьбе и мужестве моих родных было моим долгом".

Александр Шумилин – советский офицер, прошедший всю войну. До самой смерти, он работал над своими воспоминаниями о войне. Его книга была опубликована только после его смерти. "Ванька-ротный" – это искренний рассказ о трудных военных буднях стрелкового офицера Великой Отечественной Войны. Повествуя о невзгодах, которые постигли миллионы красноармейцев на фронте в период с августа 1941 по апрель 1944 года, автор отобразил события с поражающей натуралистичностью.

A collection of the finest New York Times columns written by Roger Cohen over more than a decade, accompanied by an original, twenty-thousand-word essay on the state of the world.

Roza Shanina's biography reads like a comic book hero come to life, a heroic female assassin fighting off the Nazi forces at the height of World War II. Seeking vengeance for the death of her brother, Roza Shanina sacrificed her life for service in the Red Army's fight against the invading Nazis during World War II.

From a team of leading Ukrainian reporters, 77 Days of February is the bracingly powerful and intimate story of the early days of the Russian invasion of their thriving independent nation. It brings to the world, in a way not seen before, the experiences of everyday Ukrainians whose lives have been forever torn apart by this brutal and illegal war, and celebrates their monumental strength and resilience.

В приказе петлюровского коменданта было сказано, что в ночью командованием армии будут пущены против большевиков смертоносные фиолетовые лучи, предоставленные Петлюре французскими военными властями. Населению Киева предписывалось спуститься в подвалы и не выходить до утра. Реальные картины тех уже далеких событий Константин Паустовский детально описал в своей книге "Фиолетовый луч".

Книга основана на дневниковых записях и письмах легендарного полководца маршала Победы — Ивана Степановича Конева. Эти материалы впервые опубликованы благодаря кропотливому труду его дочери, Наталии Ивановны Коневой, которая расшифровала и дополнила мемуары отца своими личными воспоминаниями и ощущениями.

Денис Давыдов – генерал-лейтенант, герой Отечественной войны 1812 года, а также легендарный поэт и мемуарист, – был одним из инициаторов и руководителей партизанского движения. Воспоминания, записки, очерки и статьи Давыдова, вошедшие в книгу, являются важным источником по истории Наполеоновских войн и памятником русской литературы 20–30 гг. XIX века.

Russko-yaponskaya voyna: Buduchi voennym korrespondentom na ehtoy voyne. Krasnov prinimal neposredstvennoe uchastie v boyah. Pered nami zahvatyvayushchee povestvovanie o geroizme nashih soldat v bitvah s protivnikom, prevoskhodyashchim russkih i chislom i osnashcheniem. Na vnutrennem fronte: Razval armii i fronta posle fevralya 1917 goda v sledstvie znamenitogo Prikaza N1 o soldatskih komitetah. Polnyy haos v voyskah i torzhestvo hamstva.

"Путь русского офицера" - книга Антона Ивановича Деникина (1872 - 1947) — автобиография легендарного русского генерала, одного из руководителей Белого движения в годы Гражданской войны, участник Русско-японской войны, одного из наиболее результативных генералов Русской императорской армии в период Первой мировой войны.