In the review in a polemical form judgments about the content of one of the sections of the monograph O. Nagorna «Another military experience. Russian war prisoners of the first world war in Germany (1914-1922)», which was published in 2010 in the Moscow publishing house «Chronograph». The book was prepared in the framework of the research project of the University in Tübingen (Germany) «Military experience, war and society in the new time» and was published thanks to the financial support of the German research community. The author of the monograph synthesized a very representative range of sources, including a significant number of archival documents from German and Russian archives, materials of the camp press, etc. The book of O. Nagorna significantly expanded our understanding of the camp daily life of prisoners of war of the royal army, bringing the reader, in fact, to a new – qualitatively higher – level of knowledge about this problem. The section of her book «German Policy of Enlightening National Minorities of the Russian Empire: Stereotypes, Propaganda and Perception» is read with particular interest, where O. Nagorna touched the problem of national camps, and in particular – the Ukrainian soldiers (Rastat, Wetzlar, Salzwedel) and officers in Hanover-Münden. And if talking exclusively about how O. Nagorna information was presented about the Ukrainians - war prisoners (as well as representatives of other nations), we have to admit that the author in many respects remained faithful to the old hackneyed recipes in covering the political aspirations of these rather numerous national groups of prisoners of war of the Russian Imperial Army. In the perception of O. Nagorna – national patriotic work, which was conducted in the Ukrainian camps by members of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, a priori could not have a positive character, because objectively weakened tsarist Russia

war prisoners; camp; Ukrainians; Russian Empire; First World War