"Our entire army is taken in steel pincers. About 300 thousand people were surrounded - more than 20 first-class German divisions. In our thoughts, we did not allow the possibility of such a monstrous catastrophe!" - we read on the first pages of this book. As a reconnaissance officer in the 6th Army of Paulus, the author shared her tragic fate, having gone through all the circles of the Stalingrad hell - from the victorious summer offensive to the winter defeat and Soviet captivity. But this book is more than the revelations of a survivor who happened to "look into the abyss."