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The Chief of the General Staff of the UPR Army in exile, General Pavlo Shandruk, graduated from the Higher Military School in Warsaw in 1938. In 1938 and 1939 he became a contract lieutenant colonel, later a colonel of the Polish Army. He had a thorough knowledge of the pre-war military situation in Poland and the "peace-loving" policies of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, as well as the events of the German-Polish War.

The book opens up extremely interesting and unfamiliar to Ukrainian readers pages of this war - the so-called September 1939 campaign. Soviet clichés presented the events as "Poland's quick and shameful defeat by Germany and the USSR's entry into the war to protect the fraternal Ukrainian and Belarusian peoples." In reality, the soldiers, officers and generals of the Polish Army fought heroically against the superior forces of the German and Soviet aggressors. Each of them, as well as the combat operations, especially those in which P. Shandruk took part, deserve the widest possible description.

The author examines in detail Hitler's hybrid war "for the liberation of the Germans from oppression and humiliation" in Czechoslovakia and Poland, as well as Stalin's struggle "for the liberation of workers from the oppression of landlords and capitalists". The German-Soviet Pact of 23 August 1939 divided Poland between the brown and red aggressors.

The passivity and "concern" of Europe at the time was repeated in relation to Ukraine in 2014 and 2016. Vladimir Putin followed the path of his tsarist and Soviet predecessors in defending the "Russian-speaking population" and "self-determination of the land."