During the Great Patriotic War, Lieutenant General N. A. Antipenko was deputy front commander for rear. In his book, op tells about the work of all links of the military rear in a number of outstanding military operations carried out by the Red Army. The book "In the main direction" twice - in 1967 and 1971 - was published in Moscow, in the publishing house "Science." The author has made amendments and additions to this edition. The preface of Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov was written for the second edition.