Among plenty of memoirs about Afghanistan war, this book costs by oneself, although the fate of her author, average lieutenant, in a great deal calls and with hundreds of alike fates of his coevals. In her intentionally there are not the detailed descriptions of fights and operations, so-called "экшена" many works abound that. This book - about life on war with the master transmission of all barely visible strokes of that time, up to domestic little things, instantly carrying a reader in the atmosphere of those years. Together with an author, his eyes, from the period of input of troops to Afghanistan, we will see as all began. We will run into stealing and confusion, meanness and treachery, cowardice and heroism. We know, of what thought, what was most afraid of, that most had struck and what he lived by these two with superfluous years. This book - and book-analysis. Analysis of reasons of unjustified losses and first failures, errors in preparation of subdivisions, lacks of equipment and rearward providing. As политработник is замполит of company and battalion, an author in detail describes forms and methods of партийно-политической work with a personnel, works with a local population, marks the morally-psychological features of soviet soldier by comparison to an opponent.Does a book unique and her documentaryness. Except the placed documents, in her great number of unique authorial photos as if illustrating every his word, that does material interesting to not only the wide circle of readers but also soldiery historians and specialists. In spite of large and serious material, a book is read in one gulp.