This book is worthy to enter the golden fund of literature about the Great Patriotic War. This is a unique memoir of a front-line intelligence officer who did not even have one chance per thousand to stay alive - but he survived to tell the truth about the worst war in our history. "Twenty-seven months on the front line, including twenty months in foot, infantry reconnaissance, the rest - in hospitals. The experience of the front was as follows: two or three months in intelligence - and for the majority the war ended forever or took out of the brackets a disabled person, crippled, who is lucky. It fell to him to live! Only three out of a hundred boys born in 1923 had this lot!.."