Although military rockets have been used since the Middle Ages, it was not until the Soviet Union pioneered the concept of Multiple Rocket Launchers (MRLs) in the late 1930s that they emerged as a decisive weapon. In the modern era, these...
„Irrtümer hindern die Wissenschaft am meisten am Fortschreiten; sie zu beseitigen hat mehr praktischen Wert, als eine neue Erkenntnis zu gewinnen,“ meinte Eugen Bleuler. Der grundsätzliche Irrtum gebräuchlicher Klassifikationen der...
Shrouded in secrecy and intrigue during its lifetime and myth and legend since its dissolution, the KG 200 still remains for many one of the most fascinating units of the Luftwaffe. Delivering spies while flying captured Allied aircraft, clandestine...
Documenting the structure, programs, and personnel of the KGB, this book profiles Yuri Andropov, former KGB head and subsequently leader of the U.S.S.R., and closely examines KGB activities in the U.S., Japan, and around the...
John Barron's work details the history of the
KGB and tradecraft employed running agents in intelligence operations.
The KGB is the commonly used acronym for the Russian Komitet
gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti or Committee for State Security. It was...
In just four weeks in the summer of 1941 the German Wehrmacht wrought unprecedented destruction on four Soviet armies, conquering central Ukraine and killing or capturing three quarters of a million men. This was the Battle of Kiev one of the...