The book is the memory of the military generation, the book is a witness to the most tragic day in the history of the country. Memories of a variety of people: from Muscovite Marusya K. to People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov, photo documents of everyday life of the last peaceful hours to the first combat reports - all these testimonies will help create a panorama of the fateful Sunday of 1941. The book will allow you to live this tragic and great day yourself - June 22, to understand how the life of the Soviet man and the country was divided into "before and after." The book also describes world and interstate events that preceded the war, the international reaction to the German attack on the USSR. The memories of diplomats and intelligence officers, excerpts from publications of newspapers and magazines around the world will make it possible to understand the complexity and ambiguity of the events that led to the outbreak of the war. The book is illustrated with unique photographs and contains a number of documents, including those that have only recently been classified.