Returning to his homeland from Siberia, Hans Becker, a non-commissioned officer in the German army since 1937, met two Englishmen and told them his story about his journey along the roads of World War II and the years spent in Soviet camps as a prisoner of war . His listeners found Becker's story so interesting that they wrote it down, translated it into English and published a book. In his memoirs, Hans Becker, a non-commissioned officer in the German army, which he joined in 1937, describes the path he traveled along the roads of World War II war, and the years spent in Soviet camps as a prisoner of war. In the simple and artless language of a soldier, Becker talks about the brutal tank battles near Ternopol, Dubno, Kursk, about how he escaped encirclement and was captured, escaped and was captured again, about the years of difficult trials in captivity. While serving his sentence in Siberia, he recalls with bitter irony how he despised the prisoners of a German concentration camp, confident that in their place he would prefer death to a humiliating existence, not suspecting that soon he himself would desperately fight for survival in the same circumstances.