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The memoirs of London-based Ukrainian Ivanna Mashchak cover the period of Ukrainian history in the 30s, 40s, and 50s of the tragic twentieth century: the Ukrainian underground in Poland, Operation Vistula, and the Gulag camps on the Kolyma, which were crowded with Ukrainians - all of which the author experienced personally. She has a sincere conversation about a Galician village in the 1930s, about Polish and Soviet police interrogation rooms, about a ship in the night Sea of Okhotsk... The woman's story is complemented by her husband Volodymyr's brief recollections of his service in the Galicia Division and the transfer of Ukrainian soldiers to the UK. On the example of the life of one family, we learn not only about the life, customs, education, and religion in Western Ukraine, but also about the main idea of the life of its inhabitants of all generations - the struggle for Independence; the struggle is bloody, sacrificial, and uncompromising.

The book is intended for a wide range of readers and research historians.