Beskriver udviklingen af den tyske "Flyvende Bombe" fra 2. verdenskrig, V1 (Fieseler Fi 103) samt et antal sovjetiske videreudviklinger af dette våben (Jord til jord- og luft til jord missiler).
Despite the Soviet tendency of silencing the Holocaust, or at least its universalization and externalization in literature and in the arts, the Soviet film industry has produced a number of films dealing with the Holocaust, or at least mentioning it. In the representation of Naz…
"War movies have long been the most influential genre in Russian cinema, so much so that in the Soviet Union's militaristic society, "cinema front" was used to describe the film industry itself. Denise J. Youngblood, an internationally recognized authority on Russian and Soviet …
The story of the Soviet Union is a complex one, and one that was for a long time inaccessible to western historians due to lack of documentation and ideologically motivated obfuscation, but it is one that Moshe Lewin is uniquely qualified to tell. Now that the smoke has cleared,…
Who are we? Where did we come from and where are we going? What is the meaning of life and death? Can we abolish death and live forever? These "big" questions of human nature and human destiny have boggled humanity's best minds for centuries. But they assumed a particular urgenc…
When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different peoples belonging to a multitude of linguistic, religious, and ethnic groups. Before 19…
Ideen om "Isbryderen, Hitler i Stalins politiske kalkyle" var årsagen til at den sovjetiske generalstabsofficer Viktor Suworows - under psydonym, grundet bogens kontroversielle påstande - søgte og fik asyl i England i 1978. Bogen har stor tyngde i beskrivelse af flere typer af d…
The collapse of the Soviet empire in 1991 removed a decades-long system of successful control of potential ethnic and regional conflict. The result was the eruption of numerous conflicts over state-building, some of which degenerated into violence and some of which were resolved…
General Gehlen fortæller om sit efterretningsarbejde under 2. verdenskrig, om sit efterfølgende samarbejde med USA's efterretningstjeneste og endelig om hans sidste job som efterretningschef i Vesttyskland. Den engelske udgave af bogen rummer afsnit, der ikke har kunnet medtages…