V dannoy knige rasskazyvaetsya ob osobennostyakh partizanskoy voyny na Karel'skom fronte SSSR v gody Vtoroy mirovoy voyny. Kompleksnyy podkhod k izucheniyu fenomena partizanskoy bor'by, predstavlennyy v dannoy rabote, mozhet dat' tselostnoe predstavlenie ob fenomene sovetskogo partizanstva. V otlichie ot dominirovavshego do nedavnego vremeni v Rossii sobytiynogo podkhoda k issledovaniyu partizanskoy voyny avtor obratilsya k analizu usloviy, v kotorykh prikhodilos' voevat' sovetskim partizanam na territorii Karelii i Murmanskoy oblasti v 1941-1944 godakh, a takzhe tomu vliyaniyu, kotoroe dannye usloviya okazali na khod partizanskoy voyny. V knige rassmatrivayutsya fiziko-geograficheskie, demograficheskie, ekonomicheskie usloviya teatra partizanskikh deystviy. Proslezhivaetsya vliyanie etikh usloviy na organizatsionno-takticheskoe oformlenie i material'no-tekhnicheskoe obespechenie partizan, izmeneniya v sotsial'no-demograficheskom sostave partizanskikh otryadov na protyazhenii perioda voyny. Vyyavlyayutsya osobennosti ideologicheskoy i agenturnoy raboty sredi partizan. Dannaya kniga mozhet byt' interesna kak spetsialistam-istorikam, tak shirokomu krugu lyubiteley voennoy istorii.