Recently published books can help readers better understand Russia and the war in Ukraine. Here is a list of must-read books.
In 1974, the Soviet Union expelled dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In 1983, a blaze engulfed a crowded movie theater ...
Winston Churchill’s fateful meeting with Joseph Stalin in 1942 makes a pithy chamber piece at London’s Orange Tree theatre ...
Ke Huy Quan told Entertainment Weekly that Harrison Ford calmed his nerves when he got scared on the set of Steven Spielberg’s 1984 adventure “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” which marked ...
Julius D’Silva’s chief negotiator Vyacheslav Molotov is underused, but Alan Cox is quite delightful as the dependable ...
The T-34 played a pivotal role in winning the Second World War. But eighty years later, the tank is a museum piece.
Professor Christian de Vartavan shares groundbreaking insights into the search for Alexander the Great's tomb and the fate of ...
Black grouse and caviar helped Stalin get much of what he wanted, but his Red Army counted for more, says a notable historian ...
As alert Wings readers know, we’re fond of a WW2 analogy from time to time. The conflict is so extensively documented, and so ...
No one could calculate the number of historical movies that get everything wrong: it’s all of them. To take one at random, ...
With its focus on war with its neighbor, Russia has taken its eyes off the ball elsewhere. As a result, its position is much ...
US Special Representative for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg assesses the circumstances for achieving an end to the ...