Look at the war, at the feat of the people not from the tops of the General Staff or the Supreme Command Headquarters, but from the trenches of an ordinary rifle regiment, from the machine gun cell of Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Zhezheri, whose machine gun became an exhibit of the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the USSR, from observation posts companies and battalions - such a task, like many other memoirists, was set by the former commander of the 289th Guards Vistula Order of the Kutuzov Rifle Regiment Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel General Yu. A. Naumenko. And he told people about it. To what extent he succeeded, everyone who picks up this book will find out.