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The historical work of Mykhailo Omelyanovych Pavlenko (1878-1952), a native of Tiflis and the Chief Commander of the Galician Army, «Ukrainian-Polish War of 1918-1919» is now an invaluable historical source on the past of the Ukrainian army and Ukrainian-Polish relations.

From the pages of this work we learn about the difficult and sometimes impossible circumstances of wartime in 1918, the prerequisites for the author's service in the Galician Army, his impressions of the state-building of Western Ukrainians, the course of the Ukrainian-Polish war for Galicia, an assessment of the victories and failures of the Ukrainian army in this war, the peculiarities of the organisation and development of the Galician Army, the chronology of the main events of December 1918 - June 1919., the Entente's intervention, the retreat of the Ukrainian army in the summer of 1919, the reflections of a prominent military leader on the strategy and tactics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of the Ukrainian Revolution.

The work is illustrated with reliable maps and diagrams, contains texts of original historical documents of 1918 and 1919.

For anyone interested in the historical past of Ukraine, reflected in the works of those authors who were direct participants in the described events and their creators.