{"product_id":"allies-against-two-evils-9781954600249","title":"Allies Against Two Evils","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn eye-witness account of the Russian\/European conflict at the heart of WWII, relevant today as war rages again along similar battle lines in Ukraine, Crimea and the Caucasus.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a corner of 20th-century history almost unknown to the English-speaking public, anti-\u003cspan\u003eStalinist Georgians and anti-Hitlerite Germans worked as an arm of the German \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eResistance, disavowing Hitler’s inhuman \"East Policy\" mandates and seeking to liberate \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCaucasian nations from Stalin. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAllies Against Two Evils: Georgian P.O.W.s in WWII’s \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBergmann Units and the Quest to Liberate the Caucasus from Russian Imperialism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexiled Georgian M.D. Givi Gabliani vividly recalls this time, the hopes of the Georgians \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewho fought in World War II, their solidarity, their tribulations, their devotion to the Jewish \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epeople, and why they made the alliances they did.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGabliani's memoir, written in English and published several years ago in Georgia, \u003cspan\u003econtrasts the vision of an ascendant Russian Empire and a decaying West with historical \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEuropean-Georgian cooperation and the centuries-long quest of the Georgian people for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eself-determination.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe preface by Georgian-German scholar and former head of the Georgian \u003cspan\u003eNational Library, Alexander Kartozia examines the legacy of Givi Gabliani and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGabliani family from the highland province of Svaneti, keepers of 12th century artifacts from Georgia's Golden Age and leaders of the 1920s resistance insurgency against Soviet invasion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGabliani envisions a future Europe supporting a trans-Caucasian alliance with mixed races and religions living together equally in tolerance and prosperous harmony, as they had for millennia in Georgia. As a spokesman for the POWs, he coordinates with the Georgian exile government in occupied Paris and Berlin, finding a secret effort afoot in occupied France to save Georgian and other Eastern European Jews. Today, \u003cspan\u003eGabliani's war memoir centers our attention on an active fault line. Across the great conflicts of the twentieth century that undergird and still define the region between Russia, with its imperialist ambitions, and the Black Sea, Georgia and the Georgian people appear as some of the most likely partners for international efforts toward peace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Givi Gabliani","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48281920897275,"sku":"9781954600249","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781954600249_21fa661c-86fa-4738-8b2e-1862f9241d24.jpg?v=1772488259","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/allies-against-two-evils-9781954600249","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}