The book by British historian John Wheeler-Bennett is dedicated to one of the most dramatic collisions of the First World War - the conclusion of a peace treaty between Soviet Russia and Germany. The author reproduces the tense atmosphere and dramatic intensity of the struggle that was waged around the conclusion of a peace treaty at the international forum in Brest -Litovsk, Wheeler-Bennett presents a realistic analysis of the situation, and also pays tribute to the political foresight of V.I. Lenin, who “left out of work” those political circles in Germany and the Entente countries who wanted to “tear apart piece by piece” Russia weakened by the war and actually deprive it of independence and independence.