Drabkin: 9 books

“Freddy the Red Beddy” is magical red bed that is abandoned at the furniture manufacturer where it was created. He finds a nice home and a best friend with a little girl named Angelina, but is delivered to her house by mistake (or was it?) and is taken away. It was bought by another set of parents for their little girl. The bond is now shared and both are sad – how will they fix this?

Go Ruthie Go is the main character in a series of six rhyming short stories that could be an animated television or DVD. Go Ruthie is a fun and outgoing six-year-old super sleuth who is called upon by friends in far away lands to solve mysteries. She is a blonde wavy haired girl, blue eyes, and a...

Go Ruthie is the main character in a series of six rhyming short stories that could be an animated television or DVD. Go Ruthie is a fun and outgoing six-year-old super sleuth who is called upon by friends in far away lands to solve mysteries. She is a blonde wavy haired girl, blue eyes, and a great...

Go Ruthie Goes to Africa is about a young super sleuth "Go Ruthie" solving mysteries for her friends. This time it's Banana Barbara in need as she cannot find her monkey in the jungle of Africa and enlists the help of Go Ruthie and her friend Rockin' Robbie.

The Soviet T-34 medium tank was one of the most famous and effective fighting vehicles of the Second World War. Along with the German Tiger and the American Sherman, it was a milestone in tank design that changed the course of the conflict. Much has been written about the technical history of the...

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,...

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 onset of war in the summer of 1941 was a disaster for the Soviet Air Force. In a few weeks, faced by the onslaught of the Luftwaffe, most of the Soviet frontline aircraft were destroyed, and the casualty rate among the pilots was cripplingly high. Yet the surviving few gained precious battle experience...

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...