New monograph of the Ural historian Oleg Нуждина, author getting a fame in the scientific circles of researches the "Uman "caldron: Tragedy of 6‐й and 12‐й armies" (2015), "Unforgotten. About a tragedy and exploit of 22‐й army of РККА" (2015), "Battle for Kyiv" (2017), "Sevastopol in autumn of 1941 : chronicle of the besieged city" (2017), "Sevastopol in June, 1942 : chronicle of the besieged city" (2013) - two the last are written in co-authorship with С. Рузаевым, and also other popular for readers books on Great Patriotic war, narrates about the tragic fate of senior commanders of Red Army (generals, commissars of higher grade, colonels and т. of п.), on one or another circumstances of getting during battle actions 1941-1945 in a hostile captivity. An author takes apart the personal plots of a few ten of historical person involved, here attracting small acquainted of wide public documentary testifying to the real behavior of the chosen personages, that allows to specify many estimations of past years and today's reading of those distant from us events him. A book is addressed to the wide circle of the readers, interested in history of Homeland. An author expresses sincere gratitude to Evgeny Федорченко and Alexander Полищуку for given help at creation of this book.