The first book includes the memoirs of the Cossack partisan A. Shkuro, the former chieftain of the Don army P. Krasnov, Baron P. Wrangel, the white generals who led the struggle against the Bolsheviks in southern Russia. The memoirs of these military leaders, popular among the Cossacks, collected together clearly reveal the differences in their views on the role and fate of the Cossacks in the future of Russia.