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Based on over a hundred interviews and on secret records of White House-Kremlin contacts, Not One Inch shows how the United States successfully overcame Russian resistance in the 1990s to expand NATO to more than 900 million people. But it also reveals how Washington's hardball tactics transformed the era between the Cold War and the present day, undermining what could have become a lasting partnership.

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne...

L'ouverture des archives russes, il y a dix ans, permet de porter un regard neuf sur les grands personnages de l'histoire soviétique, à commencer bien sûr par Staline, l'une des figures les plus énigmatiques de l'histoire du XXe siècle. Comprendre l'homme des épurations politiques et physiques, des procès truqués, des millions de morts au cours de la famine de 1932 - 1933, de la déportation d'une quinzaine de peuples, du Goulag, de la guerre froide, c'est aussi reprendre sous un autre angle la question de "l'œuvre noire" du communisme.

Николай Михайлович Карамзин - знаменитый русский писатель, публицист и историк. Двенадцатитомная История государства Российского, написанию которой Карамзин посвятил последние 22 года своей жизни, охватывает период с древнейших времен до начала XVII века и является не только значительным историческим трудом, но и прекрасным литературным произведением.

22 juin 1941. L'Allemagne nazie envahit l'URSS. S'ouvre entre ces deux puissances totalitaires un duel sans merci, en huis clos, et dont la férocité se nourrit de leurs idéologies respectives. Durant dix-huit mois, le destin hésite : la Wehrmacht arrive aux portes de Leningrad, de Moscou et du Caucase, l'Union soviétique encaisse les coups mais vacille à plusieurs reprises. Le premier volume de cette vaste fresque revient aux origines du conflit, des projets meurtriers de Hitler aux calculs cyniques de Staline, avant de retracer les affrontements colossaux qui rythment l'invasion nazie

Concluding his acclaimed series on the Eastern Front in World War I, Prit Buttar comprehensively details not only these climactic events, but also the "successor wars" that raged long after the armistice of 1918. New states rose from the ashes of empire and war raged as German forces sought to keep them under the aegis of the Fatherland. These unresolved tensions between the former Great Powers and the new states would ultimately lead to the rise of Hitler and a new, terrible world war only two decades later.

Труд известного немецкого ученого Оскара Егера содержит в себе материалы по мировой истории, которые условно можно поделить на 4 периода: "Древний мир" - от возникновения первых государств до разрушения Римской империи (в 476 г.); "Средние века" - от основания варварских государств в Италии до эпохи Реформации (от 476 г. по 1517 г.); "Новая история" - от начала Реформации до 1789 г.; и "Новейшая история" - от 1789 г. до конца XIX века.

An extraordinary lost chapter in the history of World War I: the story of America’s year-long invasion of Russia, in which a contingency of brave soldiers fought the Red Army and brutal conditions during the fall and winter of 1918–1919. In August 1918, the 339th regiment of the U.S...

The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history. It spanned the globe - from Greece to China, Hungary to Cuba - and lasted for almost half a century. It has shaped political relations to this day, drawing new physical and ideological boundaries between East and West. Bridget Kendall explores the Cold War through the eyes of those who experienced it first-hand.