This book is unique in a sense. It was written by a man who happened not only to fight the Nazis during the Second World War, but also to resist attempts to glorify them in our time. He was forced to change the machine gun to a pen by violated justice and memory. Vasily Makarovich Kononov is a former commander of a partisan platoon, unfairly accused by the Latvian authorities of war crimes. An objective reader will certainly come to the conclusion that an unbending veteran of the Great Patriotic War, who recently left us, again defeated an ominous enemy at the end of his life.