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...

404: Human Not Found is a poetry collection by Artem Del, creator of Graveyard Verses, about not feeling quite human and having trouble fitting in. It's a journey into self discovery and reshaping how one sees themselves.

**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 ...

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...

What was life in the Red Army like for the ordinary soldier during the Great Patriotic War, the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany on the Eastern Front? How far is the common perception of Red Army heroism and sacrifice borne out by historical reality? And what was the daily experience of the individual soldier caught up in this immense and ruthless conflict? The 160 contemporary photographs from the Russian archives that have been selected for this book give a striking insight int...

Red Army anti-tank gunners offer vivid accounts of their World War II combat experiences.From the cold and hunger of the Leningrad front to the clinging mud of the Korsun operation, from the gates of Moscow in 1941 to Vienna and Berlin in 1945, the recollections of these anti-tank gunners cover the vast expanses of the Eastern Front.The vivid personal narratives selected for this book give a fascinating insight into the firsthand experience of anti-tank war...

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...

**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...

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...

The book shows that if multi-storey houses are designed and built in a three-beam system of coordinates rather than the Cartesian system, and the flat walls are replaced by curvilinear in plan, then the consumption of reinforced concrete per square meter of area can be drastically reduced. These savings can be so significant that you can buy almost one more room for the same money.At the same time, however, the apartments are unusual. Shown are all the possible aspects that arise f...

‘Wiped out three Nazis in a shallow trench. But only got out by a miracle. The Germans apparently guessed where my lair was and unleashed a hurricane of mortar fire … the company had as good as buried me. Somebody saw a direct mortar hit on my lair.’ - Fyodor Dyachenko‘The German snipers on the other side also engaged in stalking, especially stalking us women. They had no female snipers, just men’ - Antonina Kotlyarova‘Dreadful death cries could be heard f...