Viktor Baranets is a former press secretary of the Russian Minister of Defense, who served in the Central Office of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff for more than ten years; author of the acclaimed book “Yeltsin and His Generals.” He was dismissed from the army immediately after the publication of excerpts from his book in the newspaper “Top Secret.” “The Lost Army” is a diary filled with extremely frank facts, documents, personal impressions and sensational confessions of a man who went through a difficult path from a soldier to a colonel of the General Staff. Thanks to his position in the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff, he gained access to highly classified documents and participated in closed meetings of the top military department in our country and abroad. The book provides unique information about the secret games of “nuclear generals” related to the sales of the best Russian nuclear systems abroad; about the military mafia and businessmen in uniform; versions of the murder of journalist D. Kholodov, based on documentary facts, the seriousness of which was assessed by the Main Military Prosecutor's Office