Unforgivably little has been written about the fate of Soviet prisoners of war, so the documentary narrative about the camp located in the town of Vladimir-Volynsky in Ukraine is of great interest and exceptional value. The author of the book, a well-known Arab diplomat with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, initially took up this topic for family reasons, but ultimately managed to create an impressive historical study. It not only tells in detail about prisoners and guards, about heroes and traitors, about resistance and recruitment, but also gives the richest material that helps to better represent this side of the tragic initial period of the Great Patriotic War. This is the uniqueness of the book, which is difficult to find an analogue in Russian literature. The book contains a large number of rare documents and photographs.