My father Nikolai Sergeevich Serzhpinsky was a participant in the Great Patriotic War, and this story was written from his memories. The father himself did not intend to write memoirs; it was difficult for him to remember what he had experienced. When I asked him to talk about those events, he did not always agree; before starting his story, he smoked for a long time, his face became serious, and pain appeared in his eyes. To preserve this soldier's story for posterity, I decided to write everything I know in the form of a first-person story. This is the full version of the book.