This book belongs to the pen of an amazing person. Alexander Mikhailovich Agafonov (Glostsev) was brought as an eight-year-old boy from the USSR to Yugoslavia, to his parents who emigrated during the Civil War. Youth that took place in Belgrade, war, German captivity, participation in the French Resistance, in the underground anti-fascist struggle in Germany... Four times sentenced to death, twice sitting in Buchenwalds (before and after the Victory), past the Lubyanka and the Gulag, he survived and left his contemporaries and descendants his memories.