This book brings up the rare first-hand experience of Alexander Sudoplatov. He joined the White Volunteer Army at the age of 17 and took part in its armed anti-bolshevik struggle in the southern regions of Russia during the last years of the White resistance. The absolute uniqueness of his diary may be stressed even more by the fact that the Alexeevsky guerilla regiment he volunteered for was all but utterly destroyed in action that took place in Kuban and Crimea regions in 1919-1920. But the main peculiarity lies in the vividness of the narrative itself, which also reveals the astonishing literary talent of its author. Sudoplatov’s keen eye for detail together with the purity of his young consciousness animates the huge spectrum of tragic, absurd, sometimes even funny scenes of the war. Sudoplatov’s witty graphical sketches drawn from life add to the atmosphere of the book, which is also supplemented by the number of notes and letters of some of the other active eyewitnesses to described events.