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Der Krieg in der Ukraine setzt neue Maßstäbe in der militärischen Auseinandersetzung. Smarte-Waffen, intelligente Raketenabwehrsysteme, tragbare und infrarotgelenkte Panzerabwehrlenkwaffen, Satelliteninformationen, Standorterkennungen der Handys von Soldaten oder Drohnen, entscheiden über Leben oder Tod, Sieg oder Niederlage. Der erfahrene Kriegsreporter und Rüstungsexperte Jay Tuck schreibt über seine persönlichen Erfahrungen in der Ukraine und seiner vorherigen Einsätze im Irak, er vergleicht die Funktion der jeweiligen Waffensysteme und Strategien und misst ihre Wirksamkeit an...

Tuck's work is an attempt at the rehabilitation of Karl Radek, a sidekick of Lenin's who fell victim to Stalin's vengeance in the 1930s. Though not a full-scale academic biography, it is satisfying and fast-moving without being superficial, and offers an intellectually intriguing thesis. . . . Where others have seen betrayal, Tuck sees Radek the mischief maker. Although Radek implicated many guiltless people and testified to lies, Tuck argues Radek's performance was a master stroke of mischief making, turning the tables against Vyshinsky, showing up and revealing the truth about the show...

In an elegant and penetrating first short-story collection, Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived, Lily Tuck's characters travel to unknown, exotic places and, while there, find themselves deeply immersed in observation -- of the natives, the local customs, the foreign landscape -- in an effort to discern some elemental truth about who they themselves are. Instead, these women meet with disorientation, confusion; they are disappointed by the people closest to them -- lovers, husbands, family members. Finally, they arrive at the sometimes heartbreaking but ultimately optimistic...

The first biography in any language of one of the most celebrated Italian writers of the twentieth century.

Born in 1912 to an unconventional family of modest means, Elsa Morante grew up with an independent spirit, a formidable will, and an unshakable commitment to writing. Forced to hide from the Fascists during World War II in a remote mountain hut with her husband, renowned author Alberto Moravia, she re-emerged at war's end to take her place among the premier Italian writers of her day. When Rome was film capital of the world, she counted Pasolini, Visconti, and the young...