During the Second World War, it was forbidden in the Red Army to keep diaries and any other records of the events taking place, under pain of a tribunal. But the front-line intelligence officer of Katukov’s 1st Tank Army, Sergeant Grigory Lobas, secretly wrote down everything that happened to him and around him day after day in his secret notebooks. This is how the chronicle of soldier’s trench life came to us all the way from Kyiv to Berlin. After the war, Lobas also carefully hid his diaries from the front. But a few years ago, two half-decayed notebooks quite accidentally fell into the hands of a military journalist, who found the unknown author in one of the Kuban villages. Literally just before his death, Grigory Lobas, thanks to the intelligence officer’s exceptionally tenacious, professional memory, commented extremely frankly on every recording of his front-line days. Based on the restored diaries and the soundtrack of G.T.’s memories. Lobasa wrote this book. Contains obscene language.