The author examines and seeks to understand how Cossacks ended up fighting alongside German forces against the USSR.

Нефть - кровь современной войны! Она жизненно необходима для танков, самолетов, автомобилей... Если нет нефти - нет горючего, вся эта грозная техника превращается в одно мгновение в бесполезную груду металла. А потому именно захват кавказских нефтепромысл

Splits in the beginning of the century Russian army into two - white and red generals eventually destroyed Russian statehood and themselves. At the end of the century the army, this time Soviet, split again, and again the sad result was the loss of the state. In both cases, the favorite weapon of the generals were denunciations and treachery, perjury and defamation.

Series: Rossiia zabytaia i neizvesntnaia.

The author was born in 1932 and survved the Blokade of Leningrad during World War II.

The book examines the tactical role played by saboteurs operating behind German lines during World War Two.