Ukraine Military

The Russo-Ukraine War is a vital learning opportunity for military strategists across the globe. The first and clearest lesson to be gleaned from it is this: the soundness of a military's strategy and the nimbleness with which it can adapt to unforeseen circumstances are the two most important factors in deciding victory or defeat. The War for Ukraine analyzes the war through these twin lenses of strategy and adaptation, detailing how each army has succeeded or failed to plan for and adapt to this twenty-first century war.

Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Chechen War to the two military incursions into Georgia, the annexation of Crimea and the eventual invasion of Ukraine itself. But it also looks more broadly at Putin's recreation of Russian military power and its expansion to include a range of new capabilities, from mercenaries to operatives in a relentless information war against Western powers.

The Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, subsequent war in Eastern Ukraine, and economic sanctions imposed by the West transformed European politics. The conflict did not escalate to the levels originally feared but nor was either side able to bring it to a definitive conclusion. Ukraine suffered a loss of territory but was not forced into changing its policies away from the Westward course adopted as a result of the EuroMaidan uprising of February 2014. President Putin was left supporting a separatist enclave as Russia's economy suffered significant damage.

Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at Mariupol. Pinned down at a Mariupol steelworks, after a month-long siege and running out of supplies, Aiden was part of the mass surrender of over a thousand Ukrainian troops, in April 2022. Then his real ordeal began.

When war erupted in Ukraine, the world paused—some in solidarity, others in silence. But for one retired British police officer, the call to bear witness was too loud to ignore. Robert Marshall takes listeners on an unforgettable journey into the heart of a nation under siege. From bombed-out streets in Kyiv to quiet moments with grieving families in Lviv, this is not just a war story—it’s a story of courage, love, despair, and human connection in the face of unthinkable cruelty.

As the noose tightens around the besieged city of Mariupol, veteran sniper Andrei Kuznetsov and his ragged squad of misfits are tasked with the impossible—hold the airport or die trying. Outgunned, outnumbered, and cut off, the defenders must rely on grit, ingenuity, and the brutal wisdom of old soldiers.

Iryna Fingerova erzählt so bewegend wie authentisch vom Leben einer jungen ukrainischen Hausärztin in Deutschland, während in ihrem Heimatland Krieg herrscht. Von ihrer Trauer, ihren Schuldgefühlen, ihrer Wut und Resignation, bis hin zu dem Versuch, das eigene Leben weiterzuleben, die Ereignisse zu akzeptieren und vielleicht persönlichen Frieden zu finden. Mira Zehmann ist Hausärztin, Mutter, Ehefrau. Sie stammt aus einer jüdischen Familie in Odesa, vor Jahren hat sie zusammen mit ihrem Mann die Ukraine verlassen, um in Deutschland ihr eigenes Leben zu leben – für sich und ihre kleine Tochter.

Three Russian agents are searching Ukraine for a stolen thermonuclear warhead. America suspects the warhead isn’t really stolen, and its detonation just a pretext to let Russia seize Ukraine. Will the agents find the warhead before it is used, and starts WWIII? This will be the Russian agents’ greatest challenge yet.

It’s the beginning of 2022 and Russian troops are massing on Ukraine’s borders. Despite Putin’s insistence that it is just a military exercise, satellite images show vast concentrations of troops, heavy weaponry and even a new field hospital. The region is on edge and the rest of the world is watching. As Putin breaks his word and orders the invasion of Ukraine, sixteen-year-old Yurii leaves his home city of Kyiv in search of safety in another country.

In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, acclaimed biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky and one of the finest historians of modern Russia, brings his deep understanding of that country to bear on the man who leads it. 'One of our most accomplished, erudite and prolific historians of modern Russia'...

On the other side of the Atlantic, a charitable foundation in New York City, established by Alexander Dragan, a mysterious Ukrainian philanthropist. A man who harbors a bitter longing for vengeance. Dragan wants revenge for his family, murdered by two Russians during the uprising in Crimea. The killers have gone unpunished, and now he wants them dead. He recruits troubled former SEAL John Raider, bedeviled by legal troubles, to work for him.

Join the artist as he tracks his target to Kiev, Ukraine. Will he survive or will the hunter become the hunted?