Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev, are stationed on opposite sides of the German-Czech border. Both...

Germany, Baltic Sea coast, May 1945, a few days before the end of World War II. A small Soviet patrol arrives at an isolated house where an elderly...

The story takes place in the not too distant future, when heart extraction is an everyday surgical operation.

The main character is a young girl Masha, an employee of the bank and an incorrigible romantic. Her unlucky marriage breaks up, and the girl is...