The book of the famous military writer V.V. Karpov is dedicated to one of the outstanding commanders of the Great Patriotic War Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan (1897-1982, from 1943 - army general, from 1955 - Marshal of the Soviet Union). However, the theme of this work is special: it deals with a difficult post-war era. The West declared a crusade against the USSR, there was a threat of a new world war, this time atomic.