An eye-witness 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 20th-century history almost unknown to the English-speaking public, anti-Stalinist Georgians and anti-Hitlerite Germans worked as an arm of the German&160;Resistance, disavowing Hitler's inhuman &34;East Policy&34; mandates and seeking to liberate&160;Caucasian nations from Stalin. Allies Against Two Evils: Georgian P.O.W.s in WWII&8217;s&160;Bergmann Units and the Quest to Liberate the Caucasus from Russian Imperialism by&160;exiled Georgian M.D. Givi Gabliani vividly recalls this time, the hopes of the Georgians&160;who fought in World War II, their solidarity, their tribulations, their devotion to the Jewish&160;people, and why they made the alliances they did.Gabliani's memoir, written in English and published several years ago in Georgia,&160;contrasts the vision of an ascendant Russian Empire and a decaying West with historical&160;European-Georgian cooperation and the centuries-long quest of the Georgian people for&160;self-determination.The preface by Georgian-German scholar and former head of the Georgian&160;National Library, Alexander Kartozia examines the legacy of Givi Gabliani and the&160;Gabliani 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.&10;&10;Gabliani 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.