Russian War Fiction

Петербург, 1914 год. Юная провинциалка Даша Булавина приезжает к старшей сестре Кате. Девушки молоды и наивны, они с энтузиазмом посещают приемы, влюбляются, ошибаются и ищут свое место в жизни. Однако мирное лето сменяется лихой осенью. Разразившаяся Первая мировая, а следом за ней две революции и Гражданская война раскидывают родных, друзей и близких по всем уголкам огромной страны…. "Хождение по мукам" — потрясающая по своим масштабам эпопея, над которой Алексей Николаевич работал более двадцати лет, неоднократно редактируя и переписывая текст.

It's 1991 and Saddam Hussein's Gulf War hijinks have left a hole in the world order. The demand for tactical weapons on the global black market has never been higher... ...and where there is such great demand, someone is bound to step in to fill the void. American special agent Brady Kinin is on the hunt for a stockpile of nuclear weapons, stolen by a team of rogue KGB agents. His unlikely partner in trying to recover this dangerous cache? A Russian defector with possible insight into their whereabouts. While in a death-defying race to take back the weapons, Kinin confronts a dark menace, ...

A historical thriller perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys and Elizabeth Wein, about two girls from separate worlds flee across the Russian countryside at the height of the Russian Civil War.

War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.

Three Russian agents are searching Ukraine for a stolen thermonuclear warhead. America suspects the warhead isn’t really stolen, and its detonation just a pretext to let Russia seize Ukraine. Will the agents find the warhead before it is used, and starts WWIII? This will be the Russian agents’ greatest challenge yet.

It's spring, 1942. The sky is blue, the air is warm and sweet with the scent of flowers. And then everything is gone. The flowers, the proud geese, the pretty wooden houses, the friendly neighbours. Only Sasha remains. But one small boy, alone in war-torn Russia, cannot survive. One small boy without a family cannot survive. One small boy without his home cannot survive. What that small boy needs is an army.

В девяти километрах от передовой стоит воинская часть Пауля Боймера и его товарищей Альберта Кроппа, Мюллера V и Леера. Всем четверым по девятнадцать лет, все четверо из одного класса, все четверо еще вчера были школьниками, все четверо сегодня солдаты.

China’s President faces many problems. Some, like conflict at the Indian border and in the South China Sea he created for himself. Others, like pending disasters at the Three Gorges Dam and China’s oldest nuclear plant, just happened. But the biggest threat to Communist rule is revolutionaries with Internet access through American satellites. Access that lets them spread propaganda, organize free of government surveillance, and launch cyberattacks. Four deniable Russian agents will travel to America to stop that threat.

Putting the old Soviet world behind him in retirement should have set Mike Lacondeguy at ease, but an addled old hippy and an Uzbek firebrand determined to do things her way make that impossible. In the second book of The New Americans trilogy, CHICKEN TODAY, FEATHERS TOMORROW, an aged Flower Child living on the streets and a young Uzbek agitator draw Mike Lacondeguy into a world where urban legend and common sense collide and where he can no longer run from his past. While tangled in the war in Ukraine, Mike comes across a book of poems with a mystifying couplet: All the world went silent/...

They were promised a three-day war. A victory parade in Kyiv. Flowers thrown at the feet of liberators. But for the men of the 64-kilometer-long convoy, the road to glory has become a frozen river of mud and steel. For Captain Dmitri Volkov, a logistics officer, the war is not a battle of heroes, but a grim equation of dwindling fuel, failing equipment, and timetables that have become a grotesque joke. His logbook, once a sanctuary of order, is now the meticulous record of a slow, grinding descent into hell. As days bleed into weeks, the Zampolit’s patriotic speeches fade into the howl of...

"an engrossing and thought-provoking read that will linger with the reader long after the final page" ~ The Feathered Quill. Based on the true story of a couple torn apart during World War II, The Electrician and the Seamstress is a beautiful tale of resilience, courage, and love. Germany, 1936. Bruno, an electrician, and Karla, a seamstress, forge a powerful love amid the rise of the Nazi Party and Hitler’s ascent to power. Staunch opponents of the Nazi ideology, they live in perpetual apprehension as they risk being labeled dissidents, navigating a complex negotiation between moral ...

"Zapiski o Gall'skoj vojne" - sochinenie Gaja Julija Cezarja, v kotorom on v prisushhej emu tochnoj, szhatoj i jenergichnoj manere opisal svojo zavoevanie Gallii v 58-50 gg. do n. je., a takzhe dve perepravy cherez Rejn i vysadku v Britanii. "Zapiski" obladajut ne tol'ko vysochajshej istoricheskoj cennost'ju. Oni povestvujut o takticheskih i strategicheskih voennyh reshenijah, osobennosti byta rimskoj armii, geograficheskie i jetnograficheskie podrobnosti o zavoevannyh zemljah i narodah.

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.

Russia, 1917. Petrograd is on the eve of revolution. For Countess Sophia Orlova, the city of her childhood—the only home she has ever known—has become her deadly enemy. The mob are ready to get rid of anyone connected to the old regime, including Sophia. When rebels threaten to shoot Sophia and her husband, they are saved by Nikolai, a fervent supporter of the revolution. Determined to help Nikolai’s cause, Sophia sets up a hospital wing in the house, nursing injured victims by his side.

Никколо Макиавелли (1469 - 1527) - итальянский мыслитель, философ, писатель, политический деятель - занимал во Флоренции пост секретаря второй канцелярии, отвечал за дипломатические связи республики, автор военно-теоретических трудов. Выступал сторонником сильной государственной власти, для укрепления которой допускал применение любых средств, что выразил в прославленном труде "Государь", опубликованном в 1532 году.

Душераздирающе красивый роман, ставший настоящим гимном женской храбрости и силе духа. Книга Кристин Ханны стала главным мировым бестселлером 2015 года, читатели и целый букет печатных изданий назвали ее безоговорочно лучшим романом года. Книга уже издана или вот-вот выйдет в 39 странах

NEWLY PUBLISHED! If you were moved by Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris, or Ballard's Empire of the Sun, then this book is for you. A moving and powerful page-turner of family, friendships and love, and the endurance of the human spirit, from bestselling D. M. Mitchell. Inspired by real events in the author's family history. It’s Sept 1939. Germany has invaded Poland. Twelve-year-old Jozef lives on a farm in the east of the country until the Russians invade and send him and his family to a labour camp in northern Siberia. Here they face cruelty, hardships and loss beyond anything they ...

War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature. Book 11: 1812: Absolute continuity of motion is not comprehensible to the human mind.

Nikolai Volkov is a combat veteran of the Chechen war with a passion for finding truth and doing the right thing. His father is a decorated military hero, and Nikolai had planned to follow in his footsteps until the dramatic social and political changes in Russia made it impossible. In the new Russia, Nikolai embarked on a different career and soon became the best bodyguard in the prestigious Centurion Personal Protection Agency in Moscow. Nikolai prides himself on his ability to use his analytical skills, as well as his military combat skills when protecting his clients.

Civilization has an off switch. The Russians call it Lunnaya Pesnya. Moon Song. They bring the device aboard the International Space Station disguised as an experimental electromagnetic propulsion system. Just a harmless EmDrive prototype, ferried into space for testing in microgravity. But the device is not what it appears to be, and it’s far from harmless. When military cosmonauts hijack the ISS, Russia’s plans of global conquest are revealed. Moon Song is a game-changing electromagnetic pulse weapon, capable of attacking any location on Earth from orbit.