The Motherland of Elephants boy Capture your innermost thoughts

Capture your innermost thoughts

and what God requires of all men

This short but important text was one of the very few contemporary works on German Army airships

and the regular armies of the Japanese and British

Navy submarines during the first half of WWII

The Motherland of Elephants boy Capture your innermost thoughts'Russia is the motherland of elephants' this phrase from a Soviet era anekdot (a peculiar genre of Russian jokes, often political, or obscene, or both) takes the mickey out of historical propaganda. The phrase is symbolic of the somewhat light hearted approach to history, which is quintessential to this book. This is not an official history but a series of sketches, often humorous, on various aspects of Russian life over the centuries, of people,