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The word "Volyn" has become a symbol of murder for Poles, although most of them and Ukrainians heard about these events for the first time only in the early 2000s. "Volyn-43" is not a fiction of Polish or Russian propaganda, but a real terrible story of the deaths of thousands of Poles and Ukrainians. But its boundaries are much wider in time and geography.

The author of the book, Volodymyr V. Yatrovych, is a historian and publicist, one of the most famous researchers of the Ukrainian liberation movement, head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, and author of the monograph The Second Polish-Ukrainian War of 1942-1947, which provoked a heated discussion among historians around the events of Volyn-43. This book, written on its basis, was perhaps the first attempt to present the events that Russian propaganda called the Volyn massacre in a popular scientific manner. The author proposes to stop making a division between executioners and victims on the basis of nationality and to look at the events of the summer of 1943 in Volyn in the context of Ukrainian-Polish history before, during and after the Second World War, studying the memoirs of direct participants in the events, documents of the Ukrainian and Polish underground, the Home Army and the UPA. It was they who were the protagonists of this tragedy that lasted for many years.

But who was hiding and continues to hide behind the scenes of these events? Who receives political dividends from the history of the two most numerous European nations, which for many years fought for their statehood under the rule of empires, whose borders were drawn on maps at the behest of foreign generals and whose liberation slogans "from sea to sea" and "from the Xian to the Don" intersected in a place that became synonymous with trouble? This book is an opportunity to form your own opinion about the Volyn events, based not on newspaper or political speculation, but on the objective facts of the history of the peoples for whom this war should be the last. Not in the sense of the nearest one, but the one after which another one will be impossible.