In your hands is an amazing testimony about the Great Patriotic War - the memoirs of the American citizen Niklas Burlak, who, by the will of fate, ended up in the Soviet Union with his family in the 1930s and shared the bitter fate of our country in the 1940s. The author was seriously wounded several times and twice lost the crew of his thirty-four in battle. He is sure that he owes his life to great love, which he unexpectedly met in a completely unsuitable military situation, but one day it was tragically cut short. Niklas Burlak went through the largest battles of the second half of the Great Patriotic War - the Battle of Kursk, the liberation of Belarus and Poland, the capture of Berlin. In May 1945, he, like many Soviet soldiers, briefly described his path from his home to the enemy’s lair on the walls of the Reichstag. Niklas Burlak’s inscription began, very unusual for a Soviet officer: “Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.” In the USA, the author published this wonderful book in 2010–2012 under the name M. J. Niklas, immortalizing in the pseudonym the memory of his two brothers Mike and John, who also drank all the “delights” of Soviet life.