Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 5,000 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with supplying much-needed Russian speakers to the three s
After the guns fell silent in May 1945, Stalin installed secret police services in the satellite countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Trained by his NKVD—a predecessor of the KGB—offic
On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Locke
Winston Churchill called it "the unknown war." Unlike the long stalemate of the Western Front, the conflict 1914–1918 between the Russian Empire and the Central Powers was a war of mov
The relationship between the KGB and its ghastly brood of "daughter" organizations through which Moscow terrorized the satellite states grabbed by Stalin during and after World War I
The October Revolution happened in November 1917. Later Soviet propaganda "proved" it was "the will of the people," but few know that the brutal rebellion, which killed millions an
Women volunteering to become secret agents or spies risk the same torture as men if caught, plus sexual violence. Many of their male colleagues mistrust them for "emotional unreliability." Some have i
A revealing look at the dark side of England’s most celebrated monarch When people think of Richard the Lionheart they recall the scene at the end of every Robin Hood epic when he returns from the cru
A timely book detailing more than 1,000 years of Russian expansionism, utilizing previous unpublished first person accounts People call Putin’s power strategy the new Cold War. Author Douglas Boyd arg
Reveals the dark side of England's most celebrated monarchWhen people think of Richard the Lionheart they recall the scene at the end of every Robin Hood epic when he returns from the crusade to punis
Recreating the turbulent life of one of the most exciting women in European medieval history, this biography reveals a peculiarly "modern" queen?Eleanor of Aquitaine was the only person ever to sit on
