The soldiers are involuntarily. Alsarians and World War II. Shenderova-Foc L.

A couple of years ago, the book of Charles Mitchi “Tambov. Chronicle of captivity ”became a real revelation for the Russian reader - the first, after the memorable article of Ilya Ehrenburg“ Voice of Elsas ”, evidence of the tragedy of thousands of Frenchmen, forcibly drafted into the German army during the Second World War. It was after the article by Ehrenburg that the fate of the French prisoners of war changed for the better, thanks to which some of them even ended up in the ranks of the African units of General de Gaulle. But before - the service in the hated Wehrmacht, desperate attempts to desperate and surrender to Soviet captivity, long months of stay in the camp near Tambov.

The book “Soldiers involuntarily” contains the memoirs of four participants in the events that went through all these ordeals - she accepts the baton and continues the topic of historical evidence raised by Charles Mitchi.

in Russian is published for the first time.