The famous Soviet commander Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky served as Chief of the General Staff from 1942 to 1945. The Marshal of the Soviet Union recalls his participation in the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars, in the defeat of Japan and the work of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command. On the pages of the book A.M. Vasilevsky shares his impressions of his contemporaries and colleagues - M.V. Frunze, I.P. Uborevich, B.M. Shaposhnikov, M.N. Tukhachevsky, K.E. Voroshilov, G.K. Zhukov and other famous Soviet military leaders.