What does it mean to remain faithful when the familiar world is irrevocably destroyed?
This book is not only a reconstruction of the last battle of French volunteers as part of the 33rd SS Grenadier Division "Charlemagne", but also an attempt to read this battle as a symbolic event of European consciousness.
Through the eyes of Jean Mabir, a writer, soldier, and historian, we see not just an episode of World War II, but a limit situation in which personal choice becomes a form of resistance to decline, where defeat is not an end, but a state of being: a place where the ability of man to remain himself in a civilization that no longer promises anything is revealed.
Drawing on memories, documents, front-line memoirs, and elements of literary stylization, this work explores the last defense of Berlin as a historical and moral node—a space in which ancient notions of honor and loyalty still resonate.
Author: Jean Mabir.
Translated by: Daria-Maria Chaikina.
Language of publication: Ukrainian
Year of publication: 2025
Binding: Hardcover