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The Chortkiv Offensive of 7 June 1919 is written in golden letters in the military history of Ukraine. The defeated and morally depressed Galician army, deprived of ammunition and driven into a small corner of its homeland, unexpectedly defeated and forced the enemy, who was outnumbered and much better supplied, to retreat. The elation that enveloped Ukrainian society in Galicia at the news of the victory at Chortkiv and the subsequent successes of the native army was rightly compared by contemporaries to Easter. This book is the result of more than a quarter-century of research into this phenomenon. Based on a wide range of sources, with an emphasis on numerous archival documents of the Ukrainian and Polish sides, the course of the fighting is carefully recreated and analysed in close connection with international relations of the time and the difficult military and political situation of Ukraine.

The book chronologically covers the events from the end of May to 28 June 1919, namely: the background, course, and consequences of the Chortkiv Gap, the proclamation of the Dictatorship, the first steps of the large-scale reorganisation of the armed forces of the Western Region of the Ukrainian People's Republic planned by General Grekov, the origin and development of the operation plan, the fierce struggle for strategic initiative in the battles for Buchach and Terebovlia and its victorious conclusion with the liberation of Ternopil and the liquidation of the enemy bridgehead on the left bank of the Dniester near Nizhnev, and the battle of Berezhany, the impact of the diplomatic struggle in Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, and Lviv on the course of hostilities in Galicia, the relations of the Western Region of the UPR with the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Bolsheviks, and the results of the military construction launched by General Hrekov, the last successes of the Galician Army in the fierce battles on the Verkhnobuzka Plain, in Holohory, over Hnyla Lypa and Svirzh, the beginning of the Polish counter-offensive, controversial views on the results and consequences of the Chortkiv Offensive, as well as its place in the history of military art.