Biographies and memoirs

This book is the memoirs of a German Luftwaffe fighter pilot who fought during World War II in northwestern France and Belgium. The author, an eyewitness and...

My experience working in the French Legion organization, how the idea of going there was born, what I went through there.

A step-by-step history of establishing the fate of my ancestors. Which one was who? The answer to this and many other questions is mixed with memories.

A popular publication that provides an accessible and fascinating account of two interconnected polar expeditions that left a bright mark on the history of A...

Fragments of the book by writer and journalist Paolo Manelli (1891–1984) “Shoes in the Sun.” Good people and the criminal everyday life of war. Translation b...

Chapters from the book “It's All Over” by the Englishman Robert Graves (1895–1985); translation by Elena Ivanova, introduction by Larisa Vasilyeva. An absolu...

The documentary book of the Englishwoman Vera Brittain (1893–1970) “Testaments of Youth”, fragments from which translated by Anton Ilyinsky are published by ...

Benedict Spinoza (1632–1677) was a deeply religious man, but did not belong to any religion. Having lived the life of a righteous man, he found himself an ou...

Boris Vian ─ French writer, and in general, a man of diverse talents, the author of a number of modernist shocking works, who nevertheless became a classic o...

A heartfelt story about the fate of a simple Russian woman. Revolution, war, orphanhood - all this became the childhood and youth of a village girl in the Ru...

“Ivan Ivanovich came from an old noble family. He was born in 1798 and as a thirteen-year-old boy (in 1811) he was sent to the famous Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, ...

“Chaadaev (Petr Yakovlevich) is a famous Russian writer. The exact year of his birth is unknown. Longinov says that Ch. was born on May 27, 1793, Zhikharev c...