An eyewitness account of the RussianEuropean conflict at the heart of WWII relevant today as war rages again along similar battle lines in Ukraine Crimea and the Caucasus.In a corner of 20thcentury history almost unknown to the Englishspeaking public antiStalinist Georgians and antiHitlerite Germans worked as an arm of the Germanampamp160Resistance disavowing Hitlers inhuman ampamp34East Policyampamp34 mandates and seeking to liberateampamp160Caucasian nations from Stalin. Allies Against Two Evils Georgian P.O.W.s in WWIIampamp8217sampamp160Bergmann Units and the Quest to Liberate the Caucasus from Russian Imperialism byampamp160exiled Georgian M.D. Givi Gabliani vividly recalls this time the hopes of the Georgiansampamp160who fought in World War II their solidarity their tribulations their devotion to the Jewishampamp160people and why they made the alliances they did.Gablianis memoir written in English and published several years ago in Georgiaampamp160contrasts the vision of an ascendant Russian Empire and a decaying West with historicalampamp160EuropeanGeorgian cooperation and the centurieslong quest of the Georgian people forampamp160selfdetermination.The preface by GeorgianGerman scholar and former head of the Georgianampamp160National Library Alexander Kartozia examines the legacy of Givi Gabliani and theampamp160Gabliani family from the highland province of Svaneti keepers of 12th century artifacts from Georgias Golden Age and leaders of the 1920s resistance insurgency against Soviet invasion.ampamp10ampamp10Gabliani envisions a future Europe supporting a transCaucasian alliance with mixed races and religions living together equally in tolerance and prosperous harmony as they had for millennia in Georgia.