This book is a knowledge of oneself. Who was, how changed, what remained... So modestly, the author defines the task of his memoirs, although he has every right to a higher assessment of such a long and bright life. Memoirs of N. M. Amosov - a piercing, very personal confession and at the same time voluminous portrait of the era: war, hopes of the sixties, medical discoveries that shocked the world, again hopes and disappointments of the late eighties, meetings, "voices" and live portraits of contemporaries - outstanding surgeons S. S. Yudin, A. N. Bakulev, A. A. Vishnevsky, academician Sakharov, politicians and cultural figures.