A new novel from the bestselling author of “Don’t Retreat! To not give up!". The bloody “trench truth” of 1945. The last battle, it is the most difficult! Although the Red Army is pushing back the enemy on all fronts, the Germans continue to put up desperate resistance. The Nazis' allies - the Hungarians, Croatian Ustashas, Vlasovites, and White Guards from the Russian Corps - are also in no hurry to lay down their arms. In terms of the intensity of the fighting and the severity of the losses, these last battles of the Great Patriotic War are often not inferior to the meat grinder of 1941... Of the entire reconnaissance company of Captain Markov, less than a platoon remains in the ranks, but they are again sent into the thick of it, on a deadly raid on enemy rear lines. It’s not for nothing that front-line reconnaissance officers are called suicide bombers behind their backs - their losses are no lower than in a penal battalion, and their chances of survival are one in ten. Like the penalty box, there is one law in military intelligence - to carry out even the most impossible orders at any cost! If you have to, take on an unequal battle! Die, but don't give up!