The book is the eighteenth volume of the series dedicated to the White movement in Russia, and covers the actions of the Armed Forces in the South of Russia (VSYUR) in the summer and early autumn of 1919, when the white troops, taking Kharkov, Belgorod, Tsaritsyn, rushed north and had the immediate goal of occupying Moscow. By this time, the number of VSYUR was about 250 thousand people.