The memoirs, which recount L. P. Sukachev's military career from 1917 through 1947, are recorded in two versions: an abbreviated typescript text, mounted in the form of a scrapbook and interspersed with original photographs; and an amplified mimeographed version clipped from the Russian-American emigre publication "Vestnik Pervopokhodnika" (Los Angeles) where it was serialized during the 1960's. Incorporated into Sukachev's memoirs is an account by a fellow officer, Colonel Vladimir Vladimirovich Berestovskii, entitled "Russkii Otriad v Albanskoi Armii."