The book offered to the attention of readers is intended to give the reader an idea of ​ ​ what really happened in the last year of the war in Western Europe. The author was in the Allied army as a Soviet correspondent and traveled with them all the way from the shores of Normandy to meeting with Soviet troops in central Germany. These notes are written on the basis of a diary, which was kept day after day, and protocol records of press conferences at the headquarters of armies, army groups and at the Supreme Headquarters of Expeditionary Forces in Western Europe.