Anyone at all interested in a clear overview over the Chechnya civil war should read this book. It contains a clear and well written explanation. Interesting too, for Westerners, is the fact that the terrorist and their arms and explosives could proceed across Russia undetected and that certain people seemed to have free access to the theatre while the drama was unfolding.
The main story is the story of a Bulgarian-Canadian man, of the 57 hours in a Moscow theatre being held captive by Chechnya rebels, and how he survived.
The Russians released an unknown gas into the theatre before storming it. Among the dead were all the terrorists and 129 innocent people, who succumbed to the gas after the attack. The Russians had no plan for how to transport 600 unconscious and dying people to hospitals, no medical personnel standing by on site, and never told the doctors what it was, so they were forced to experiment with antidotes before being able to treat the dying people.
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