1905 Tsushima.The Greatest Tragedy of the Russian Navy

For the first time in the military-historical literature! Unique opportunity to see the tragedy of Tsushima on all sides - Russian, Japanese and "neutral" (the British military observers).

Killers of Bismarck. British Navy Battleships NELSON and RODNEY.

Awkward, with unusual, even cutting the eye silhouette, these ships can hardly be called handsome, but they were considered a symbol of the sea power of Britain in the twenties-thirties of last century. And rightly so - before the start of WWII, "Rodney" and "Nelson" had no equal in firepower and protection. Even after the onset of the next generation of battleships, they remained in the first line - it is guns, "Rodney's" set point in the fate of the German super battleship Bismarck.

British Navy Battlecruiser HMS HOOD (51): The Death of the Lord of the Seas

Last battlecruiser of British Empire "Hood" was the pride of the Royal Navy, representing the military power of the Lady of the Sea. Since the beginning of WWII its value has increased - only Battlecruisers of this type were able to intercept the German "pocket battleships".

Russian Armored Trains of the World War II

Armored Trains of the Great Patriotic War


"We are peaceful people, but our train was standing on the siding ..." - This song, which before the war, singing the whole Soviet nation, was prophetic: it was the Great Patriotic War was destined to become the last great war of the armored train - in 1941-1945. actively in hostilities, more than 200 "steel fortresses" of the Red Army. And while many theorists believe this kind of troops are hopelessly outdated, Soviet armored train has a proven high level of combat effectiveness, especially in the first period of the war, when their construction has taken a truly massive scale - and in quantity and quality of Soviet armored trains surpassed all other Participants of the Second World put together!
However, until now, the topic is not actually covered in world literature. This book - the first one. Collecting material for her more than 20 years, processed and analyzed an enormous volume of information, tracing the path of all combat "land battleships" of the Red Army, a leading historian of armored vehicles has created not just the best, and only to date encyclopedia of armored trains of the Great Patriotic War.

Russian Armored Trains in Combat 1941-1945


The new book's leading historian of armored vehicles. Continuation of the bestseller "Armored Train World." Unlike the first volume, where the focus was primarily on the material part and the organization of units bepo (the abbreviation has taken root not only in the vernacular, but also in official documents), this edition dedicated entirely to combat use of armored trains on all fronts of the Great Patriotic War - from the Baltics to the Volga and the Caucasus. As a global leader in the production of "land battleships", the USSR was able to throw in more than 200 bepo. The Soviet-German front, where fighting was a huge territory in underdeveloped road network, namely railway communications played a crucial role, and the struggle for control over them, primarily over the junctions, has been particularly fierce. Throughout the war the Red Army armored fighting the most dangerous and endangered areas - cemented their defense on the directions of the main thrusts of the enemy, they were cast for the elimination of the German breakthrough, their crews suffered heavy losses, but the reports often read like a log of the legendary "Varyag": "At 14.00 bomb was broken steam distributor locomotive broneopezd maneuver but could not. At 14.30 on the first broneploschadke of thermite shell exploded and a fire broneploschadka completely out of order. At 15.00 a direct hit missile killed the entire crew thirds broneploschadki from falling into other shells exploded, and fire. At 16.30 three hits thermite shells struck in three places second broneploshadku, broke an instrument, a fire broke out, broneploschadka exploded. At the same time, fragments of bombs were defeated all anti-aircraft guns DShK. At 17.00 bombs broken locomotive (bent to one side), the ferry burned Brigade Engineers and commander of an armored train captain of Fundy, which, through the pain, without armored command fire from surviving broneploschadki ... "

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Back to Afghanistan: 20 Years Later. Photo-Album.

The history of humanity has many faces and many facets. Objective reality, usually estimated from different perspectives based on their beliefs, understanding and interests. Often the same event in different historical periods get the polar opposite of evaluation and synthesis. Perhaps it is safe to say only that the reflection of historical events is always much poorer and poorer the events themselves. Under one condition - if it is not a photograph. Documentary camera lens and integrity who has caught a moment, more than any invention, any intelligent assessment of any truer word.

This album is dedicated to Afghanistan, a country whose fate is intertwined with the fate of Russia has for several decades, and memories of events which do not release their members so far. Soviet troops in Afghanistan were nine years one month and nineteen days - from 1979 to 1989. February 15, 1989 the last unit of 40-th Soviet army left Afghanistan.

These mountains are like a painted sepia - a monument to Soviet soldiers. These Afghan valley, which fought the Soviet guys that gave their lives for the sake of his comrades and commanders who are on a par with Kulikov field, Shipko, Sebastopol, Berlin ... No matter when or in what country the soldiers were killed. After all, military heroism is not being rethought and reevaluated over the years, with the change of government or economic policy. He - the value of the absolute, eternal. The military feat - it's moral capital of all mankind ... But because Russia's footprint on Afghan soil will remain forever.

The book has a lot of pictures and photos.