A fascinating story, the unique fate of the man Jacob Ingerman, who fell from the whirlpool of the military-political cataclysm of World War II, and strangely combined the role of a simple rural mathematics teacher in Besarabia, a soldier of the Red Army almost from the first days of the war, a reconnaissance school, introduction into the combat units of the Wehrmacht, Mosad and Israel. Yakov Ingerman told about those years only to the closest. He served in the Wehrmacht first as a translator, then as a simple soldier... and "concurrently" - a scout of the Red Army. Almost sixty years later, a book of his memoirs was published in Israel. We offer readers its translation.