Book of military historian N.D. Karpova talks about the participants in the White movement, about those who fought under the banners of anti-Bolshevik formations during the Civil War, but were defeated and forever went down in history as irreconcilable opponents of the "most advanced" system. They made up divisions, corps and even armies, in their own way understood the duty to the Motherland, as best they could, carried it out. Readers of the book are given the opportunity to familiarize themselves with little-known and unknown episodes of a number of military events. They are interesting in that they relate to the final and most dramatic period of the Civil War in southern Russia and are for the most part described by the soldiers, officers and generals of the white armies themselves. When presenting them, the author used archival documents, diaries and memoirs of participants in the White movement, published at different times abroad.