The site of the 2014 Winter Olympics was once a battlefield. Russian troops held their victory parade in Sochi in 1864, after expelling the Circassians from their ancestral homeland. Hundreds of thousands perished or were forced to flee to Turkey and the Middle East.

Manfred Quiring recounts the turbulent history of the Caucasus people and examines the current situation of the Circassians, who now live scattered across the globe. He describes their struggle for recognition of this forgotten genocide and against the suppression of these events in Putin's historical narrative.

With a foreword by Cem Özdemir, the German Federal Minister, whose paternal Circassian ancestors were expelled from the Caucasus to Turkey in the 19th century.