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Welcome addition to the literature
Another unbiased account of the history of the Ukrainian Division Galica. Although not without some historical mistakes these are realtively minor ones (M Melnyk's book, To Battle, corrects many of them). Even so, a useful antidote to the anti-Ukrainian mudslinging of those who want to portray Ukrainians who fought for freedom as an anti-semitic rabble. Those familiar with today's Ukraine will know that monuments to the Division have been set up in western Ukraine, and that Jews are returning to Ukraine (even from Israel!), secure in their civil liberties and human rights, contrary to all the usual allegations otherwise. While many more Ukrainians fought (or had to) in the ranks of the Red Army than in the Division or in the national underground (one excludes the largely non Ukrainian Soviet partisan forces, who were largely ineffective, unsupported by the population and ignored since independence) the fact remains that the Division's members fought for Ukraine's independence, not against it, and are remembered and honoured for that. No allegations of war criminality on the part of the Division have ever been brought forward. Buy this book.

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Biased, not a representation of Ukrainians
First of all, let the world know that 4.5 million Ukrainans fought in the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. Only a small number collaborated and those were mainly murderous nationalists from Western Ukraine which was only Soviet occupied in 1939 and suffered greatly under the Poles. The author makes it look like majority of Ukrainians collaborated which is false. The author's anti-Russian attitudes are obvious as he constantly refers to 'Soviet Russia', not Soviet Union or just Russia. Still a good book for overall information on the division whose volunteers betrayed their country.

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A Much Needed Point of View on a Touchy Subject!
The subject of the Galicia Division, and other divisions, which were organized by the Germans during WWII to fight the Russians and the Soviet Union, in Ukraine and other countries - Latvia, Lithuania or Croatia usually gets the International Communist and Jewish interpretaion and is always termed as Nazi collaboration. Seldom do we hear the point of view of those who were actually fighting in those divisions. So it is refreshing to hear Mr. Logusz tell us his story. Accusing those who had fought against the Soviet oppression of nazi collaboration has always been a favorite subject of the Soviets and virtually all of the Holocaust-crazed Jewish groups, with the unfortuate result that it has come to unfairly castigate Ukrainians, Latvians, Lithuanians or Croats as nothing less than nazis. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the International Communist movement, we are starting to hear the other side, and Mr. Logusz has done a great job in that respect. We realize that the main reason for the creation of such divisions was anti-Communism and not anti-semitism.