Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov is a famous writer and screenwriter, one of the representatives of “lieutenant prose.” In 1941, he volunteered to go to the front, fought in the infantry and artillery, and took part in battles in Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, and Austria. His works about the war were published with great difficulty during Soviet times; The fate of the film “It Was the Month of May,” filmed from his script by Marlen Khutsiev, was also not easy. The reason for this is the difficult and bitter episodes of the war shown by Baklanov, which often ran counter to the “ceremonial” history. In his memoirs given in this book, he talked about his youth, flight to the front, how they fought at the front, and post-war life. There are a lot of interesting details about the events and atmosphere of pre-war, war and post-war times. Everything is written in beautiful language, truthfully, without concealment, with pain for the country and people.