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It is largely clarified the role of Royal AdjutantColonel Emilian Ionescu in the carrying out of the act of August 23, 1944, acontribution that the Romanian officer subsequently tried to oversize, ashistorian Gheorghe Buzatu pointed out[1]. Thecontexts in which a series of works signed by Emilian Ionescu[2] appearedseeking to reinterpret the history of August 1944 in a light favorable to theRomanian Communist Party and to redimension its role accordingly were alsoevoked historiographically. In view of the state of knowledge of this subject,the present research proposes that from the perspective of a criticalinterpretation of the existing scientific literature and especially of thearchival documents held by the Romanian archival institutions, especially ofthe personal collections from the National Historical Archives, to re-evaluateand recalibrate Colonel Ionescu’s contribution during the preliminary stage andthe unfolding of the act of August 23, 1944, as well as to follow in thefootsteps of this officer's life during the periods of real coalition,fictional coalition (to use the terminology imposed in historiography by thegreat British historian Hugh Seton-Watson) and of communist totalitarianism tobetter understand the contexts in which his writings on the act of August 23,1944 evolved and acquired new interpretative valences. I appreciate that amixed approach that combines classical methods (diachronic and comparativeapproaches) with conceptual study and discourse analysis will allow an optimalunderstanding of the balance between the constraints of external factors andthe internal motivation that led to the aforementioned interpretativetransformations. More broadly, the present research will contribute to a betterunderstanding of the memorialistic component of the research of the act ofAugust 23 and to the deconstruction of some facile interpretations of thisimportant event of the late stage of World War II.[1] Gheorghe Buzatu,&#160;Antonescu,Hitler, Stalin. Un raport nefinal,Vol. 3, Iaşi, Editura Demiurg, 2008, p. 76.[2] Emilian Ionescu, În uniformă pentru totdeauna (Amintiri), Bucureşti, Editura Militară, 1979; Idem, Contemporan cu veacul douăzeci, Bucureşti, Editura Militară, 1983, precum și alte articole publicate în reviste de popularizare de largă circulație.http://www.conference2020.history-cluj.ro/?fbclid=IwAR3PePYFkVnJykgkx0JsyrReCIJdfRDFT-oCjA09XsG_CCQu6GN5KOlpZdg