In recent years, historians have increasingly said that the First and Second World Wars are just two stages of one Great World War, which completely changed the political face of our planet. The new book by Russian diplomat and political scientist Nikolai Platoshkin gives a unified history of this Great War of the first half of the 20th century from August 1914 to the beginning of the Cold War. The First World War and October 17th, the interwar period with its behind-the-scenes struggle of intelligence and ideologies, an attempt at revenge against the Nazis Germany, the struggle of the countries of Eastern Europe with bloodthirsty murderers from the UPA and the beginning of attempts by the West to revise the results of World War II are reflected in the documents and facts on the pages of this book.