The book of the German writer Sven Steenberg is the life story of one of the most mysterious and tragic figures in the history of World War II - Lieutenant General Andrei Vlasov. Based on a wide range of archival documents and eyewitness accounts, as well as personal experience, the author, a former Wehrmacht officer, talks about how a successful and promising Soviet military leader, who perfectly showed himself in the battles for Kyiv and Moscow, being due to a combination of circumstances in German captivity, became the leader of the Russian liberation army, created with the support of the Germans to fight against the Stalinist dictatorship.