Twice hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky (1895-1977) took part in the First World War, commanded a platoon, battalion, regiment... After graduating from the General Staff Academy, he was the head of operational control of troops. Vasilevsky participated in the development of plans for the Stalingrad war, Kursk and many other famous operations of the Great Patriotic War. In 1945 - Commander-in-Chief of the Far East. Under his leadership, the Japanese Kwantung Army was defeated. A new novel by the famous writer A. M. Zolototrubov tells about the life of one of the largest military leaders of the Second World War.