The author examines the German campaign in the Caucasus and in particular the battle on the Kalmyk steppe.

The book covers the period of the 1920s and the 1930s and highlights the role played by the security organs of the VChK-OGPU to secure the security and ability of the Soviet Armed Forces to protect the national interests. The author seeks to reverse the negative image/view on the role of the agencies to strengthen the armed forces.

The author is a usual contributor to the newspaper Zavtra.

The Great Patriotic War was not only a grandiose confrontation between the armies of the USSR and the Third Reich. It was also a duel of weapons designers – creators of armored vehicles, aircraft, ships, artillery systems, and small arms. The young and imperfect industry of the Soviet Union faced the most powerful and modern enterprises of virtually all of continental Europe, equipped with the...

The book, in the author's words, seeks to combat what revisionism in the teaching and understanding of the Second World War and a diminishment of the achievements of the Red Army.