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The book sheds new light on the Kyustendil action to save the Bulgarian Jews, reported a reporter for ""Focus"". Its author is the historian Associate Professor Angel Johnev, and it is published on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Kyustendil action to save the Bulgarian Jews. In it, the events of March 1943, their connection, the anti-Jewish policy, the emergence of the Jewish question in Bulgaria, as well as its culmination and the famous Kyustendil action of March 1943 are told in as much detail as possible.

This book of the series is dedicated to the famous general Georgi Vazov – descendant of the old notable Vazov family, brother of the writer Ivan Vazov. He graduated from the Odesa military school and returned to Bulgaria to take part in the Serb-Bulgarian War, and then in the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913. He made his name famous at the capture of the Edirne fortress, later became a Minister of war, a talented military engineer, public figure and author of valuable war memoirs.

The turn to the East: Prince Ferdinand I of Bulgaria in the Diplomatic Papers of Austria-Hungary 1894–1899. The monograph examines the period in which, after solving the issue of the Bulgarian crisis, the danger of a real conflict with the Russian Empire and the creation of the Bulgarian dynasty, the prince and the state faced the problem of gaining international legitimacy. The time is a dynamic and fateful in which the Principality is slowly but surely making a major foreign policy turn from the West to the East in the name of the national interests. Based on sources mainly from the Austro-Hungarian archives, the book reveals the doubts and the subsequent strategic failure of Vienna in maintaining its role in Bulgaria.

Despite everything: Bulgarian writers in the years of censorship. The book narrates how the writers communicated during the years of socialism. Did they struggle with moral dilemmas? Did they justify the compromises? Did they pay a price for their disagreement with the authorities? What were their little or bigger secrets? All the writers included in this book are authors with significant names.