Rostislav Bard has always been lucky. And now fortune turned out to be favorable to him again, giving what he did not dare to dream of. Taking advantage of the opportunities that opened up to him, he will beat the Germans in their rear, form an army, take Minsk captured by the Germans and prevent the blockade of Leningrad. In the meantime, he is a lieutenant colonel-tanker, thrown by the will of the Soviet general to the rear of the Germans. So summer forty-two in all its glory.