In the collection prepared by Lieutenant Colonel V.E. Pavlov, tells about the elite military formation of the Volunteer Army, and later the Armed Forces of the South of Russia - the Markovites. The book describes the collapse of the Russian army after the revolution, the creation of the Volunteer Army in Rostov, the formation of the first officer companies and battalions, equipment and weapons of the anti-Bolshevik army, its battles, as well as the glorious 1st and 2nd Kuban campaigns.