Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov - the last marshal of the great empire. He went from platoon commander to Minister of Defense of the USSR. The prison did not pass him. The marshal wrote these memoirs while in disgrace. Yazov describes his participation in the Great Patriotic War, military service, the events of 1991, his stay in Matrosskaya Tishina accurately, texturally, without unnecessary pressure and pressure.