A gripping account of hidden identity, military courage, and an against-all-odds reunion. Four days after Germany's surrender in May 1945, a young British officer took a jeep and headed east into Germany. But this was no ordinary soldier. Manfred Gans was searching for his family...
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"With Iran being squeezed between the forces of Great Britain and the Soviet Union, a boy valiantly tries to protect his sister from Nazi spies, soldiers, and hunger"-- Provided by publisher.
The death of a journalist leads Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He's playing by Moscow rules now. Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union, is an a...
"The inspiring true story behind one of the greatest moments in [American] sports history - the 1980 United States ice hockey team's Olympic victory against the Soviet Union." -- Container.
The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occuping Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Po...
In 1953 Soviet Russia, secret police agent Leo Demidov loses status, power, and home when he refuses to denounce his own wife, Raisa, as a traitor. Exiled from Moscow to a grim provincial outpost, Leo and Raisa join forces with General Mikhail Nesterov to track down a serial kill...
An ancient scroll, spirited out of Nazi Germany by Soviet occupiers, surfaces 50 years later and threatens to wreak havoc across the Christian church. Documents like this are rare, but what makes this one unique is its author - Jesus himself. As it becomes clear that he wasn't s...
"A memoir of a decade in prison by a well-educated young addict known as the "Apologetic Bandit" In 2003, fresh out of NYU, Daniel Genis was working in publishing as his writer father had always expected. But he was also hiding a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt an...
The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, Larisa Shepitko's final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late-Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for suppl...
In the dying days of World War II, a battalion of Soviet soldiers find themselves lost in enemy territory. Stumbling upon a village decimated by an unseen terror, they're lured into the secret lab of a deranged scientist and forced to face off against his army of horrific flesh a...
A British historian, finished with a conference in Moscow on the newly opened Soviet archives, is preparing to leave Russia for good, but a surprise visit from a former Soviet officer suddenly changes his mind. The officer reveals a deadly secret, one which promises to uncover Ru...
Drawing on recently opened archival materials, leading American and European scholars provide an authoritative interpretation of Russian history and culture, ranging from the eighth century to the recent creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Former Mossad agent Gabriel Allon travels to Moscow to investigate the brutal murder of a journalist. There he uncovers a plot by a successful Russian businessman to provide arms to al-Qaeda in an effort to bring down the U.S. and restore the power and glory of the Soviet Union. ...
A clever and beautiful woman uses her wits to get her husband out of Prince Vladimir's prison.
"A memoir of a decade in prison by a well-educated young addict known as the "Apologetic Bandit" In 2003, fresh out of NYU, Daniel Genis was working in publishing as his writer father had always expected. But he was also hiding a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt an...
Following the death of his twin, Daniel Lechkov returns to his homeland for the first time in twenty years. His pregnant wife and child want to return home to the West right after the funeral, but Daniel faces pressure to succeed his brother as president. The former Soviet state ...
The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, Larisa Shepitko's final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late-Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for suppl...