Yevhen Mykhailovych Konovalets [Anglicized: Eugene Konovalets] (1891-1938) — Colonel Evgen Konovalets [Polkovnik Êvgen Konovalec ] ;

Paris Première Imprimerie Ukrainienne en France First Edition, First Printing pp. 109, [2]. Small 8vo., measuring 21 cm. Strikingly illustrated card covers bear. Black-and-white portrait frontispiece of the subject accompanied with many additional black-and-white photographs, portraits, vignettes, group portraits, etc. Very faint tide-mark confined to the upper-right margin of the front cover, single unobtrusive circular institutional stamp to the upper-right margin of the frontispiece. Contents otherwise without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked leaves and firm, sound binding; near fine. Exceptionally scarce in commrece. Corresponds to OCLC #992434029 indicating only but one institutional holding at time of cataloguing. No North American holdings could be located. Not found in KVK. Rare indeed. Scarce commemorative book published to retrospectively honour the life of the revered Commander of the Ukrainian National Republic army who would be assassinated by Pavel Sudoplatov of the Soviet NKVD, upon the personal orders of Stalin, in retaliation for the killing of a Soviet diplomat in Lviv in 1939. Comprises of a series of reminiscences, an account of his early life, education, later political and military career, poems, and a sombre eulogy to the deceased Ukrainian military, political, and revolutionary leader.