Jerzy Klimkowski was a captain during the Second World War, aide-de-camp to the commander of what was beginning to take shape in the USSR in 1941–1942. Polish army. In his memoirs, written hot on the heels of events, based on a large amount of factual material, he vividly and figuratively traces the state of the Polish army in 1939, the beginning of the process of forming the army of General Anders, the nature of the relationship between the Polish officers among themselves, with the Soviet authorities, with the Polish émigré government in London. Memoirs of E. Klimkovsky. entered into direct conflict with General Anders and the military-civilian hierarchy of emigration, in which a large number of historical figures operate, illuminate the still unexplored issue of the withdrawal of the Polish army under the command of General Anders from the USSR contrary to the Sikorski-Stalin agreement.