A Soviet infantryman offers a raw and candid look at life and death on the Eastern Front of WWII in this harrowing military memoir.While the average Soviet infantryman survived the battlefield for mere weeks before being killed or wounded, Mansur Abdulin fought on the front ranks for an entire year—and survived to tell his remarkable story. His extensive service pitted him against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk and on the banks of the Dnieper. He therefore...

**A reporter and novelist who is also a soldier in the Ukrainian army reconsiders his pacifism and the choices one makes when war is waged against you."Chapeye represents a modern-day Ukrainian counterpart to classic American writers like Mark Twain or O. Henry, capturing the dignity and respect his characters might not get but nonetheless long for and deserve." —Kate Tsurkan, Los Angeles Review of Books**In Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns, Artem ...

The book is a first person account of a soldier’s journey, and is based on Artem Chekh’s diary that he wrote while and after his service in the war in Donbas. One of the most important messages the book conveys is that war means pain. Chekh is not showing the reader any heroic combat, focusing instead on the quiet, mundane, and harsh soldier’s life. Chekh masterfully selects the most poignant details of this kind of life.

22 June 1941 changed the direction of the Second World War. It also changed the direction of human history. Unleashing a massive, three-pronged assault into Soviet territory, the German army unwittingly created its own nemesis, forging the modern Russian state in the process. Thus, for most Russians, 22 June 1941 was a critical point in their nation's history. After the first day of Barbarossa nothing would be the same again for anyone. Now, for the first time in English, Russians speak of...

**A stunning debut collection of fiction and creative nonfiction— irreverent and unglorified; loving and tender; uncomfortable and inconvenient—by a Ukrainian writer currently fighting for his country in Kyiv.Includes the celebrated title story "The Ukraine," which was published in the New Yorker in 2022.**The Ukraine is a collection of 26 pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country thro...

Red Army Air Force pilots share their stories of WWII combat and life on the front lines in this collection of interviews with Russian war veterans.The onset of war in the summer of 1941 was a disaster for the Soviet Air Force. In a matter of weeks, most of the Soviet frontline aircraft were destroyed by the Luftwaffe onslaught, and the casualty rate among the pilots was cripplingly high. Yet the surviving few learned a great deal from their harrowing battle experie...

Ukrainian writer and military serviceman Artem Chekh’s book was the winner of the 2021 BBC News Ukraine Book of the Year Award and is a gritty and bald bildungsroman, a lilting picaresque of a life lived in the shadow of someone else’s war.When Tymofiy is five years old, his small family in Cherkasy, Ukraine grows by one. Not with the birth of a baby sister or brother, but with the appearance of Felix—mentor and tormentor, enemy and friend—Tymofiy’s grandmother’s s...

Through Phases is a poetry collection by Artem Del, creator of Graveyard Verses about going through phrases and blossoming into something new - someone better.

Unlock the potential of your investment journey with The W.D. Gann Master Stock Market Course, an unparalleled resource meticulously compiled and edited by Artem Kalashnikov. This course is a comprehensive compilation of W.D. Gann’s most influential stock market lessons, offering hundreds of hours of transcribed material and insightful analysis.Transform your Trading Strategies: Dive deep into chapters covering a wide range of topics, from the basics of speculation to advanced fore...

This ebook is dedicated to the powerful combination of nauli, a yogic abdominal manipulation, with the dynamic exercise “leg raises on wall bars” from gymnastics. Leg lifts complement the arsenal of abdominal exercises in yoga and rival nauli in terms of their therapeutic effects, particularly for gastrointestinal tract disorders. The two exercises engage different aspects of the rectus abdominis muscles. The synergy between the yoga and gymnastics techniques produces unique therapeutic an...

The book is a first person account of a soldier’s journey, and is based on Artem Chekh’s diary that he wrote while and after his service in the war in Donbas. One of the most important messages the book conveys is that war means pain. Chekh is not showing the reader any heroic combat, focusing instead on the quiet, mundane, and harsh soldier’s life. Chekh masterfully selects the most poignant details of this kind of life.

Gann Square of Nine: Astronomical Economics and the Techniques of W.D. Gann is a complete and technically grounded guide for traders, analysts, and market researchers who want to understand the true mechanics behind one of the most misinterpreted tools in financial market history.Rooted in mathematics, geometry, time cycles, planetary harmonics, and market psychology, the Gann Square of Nine has long been discussed yet rarely explained with clarity. This book chang...