The Tsarist Minister of War, who was tried by the Tsar, was imprisoned by Kerensky, and released by Lenin. Under the leadership of Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinov, Russia entered the First World War only to disappear in its flames and chaos of revolution. And he himself ended his career as a despised prisoner, ostracized in society. “Russia has never been so well prepared for war as in 1914,” V. A. Sukhomlinov wrote in his book. Released by the Bolsheviks, he left for milestone to leave us his memoirs, which were practically never published in Russia. Sukhomlinov’s memoirs are the memories of an officer and minister of war about the Russian army. These are the memories of a royal servant about the sovereign and power. These are the memoirs of a “prisoner of conscience” about prison, from which neither rank nor merit saved him. Military men were imprisoned and convicted long before 1937. When Sukhomlinov was arrested, Stalin was still in his Siberian exile. I am sure that Sukhomlinov’s memoirs will add a lot of new information to your understanding of the history of our Motherland. Form your own opinion...