These are the memoirs of the famous military leader Marshal of the Soviet Union A. M. Vasilevsky. Most of the book is devoted to the Great Patriotic War, the work of the Supreme High Command, the General Staff, and the decisive role of the Communist Party in winning Victory. A. M. Vasilevsky also talks about the people who taught him, raised him as a warrior, a commander - M. V. Frunze, I. P. Uborevich, B. M. Shaposhnikov, M. N. Tukhachevsky, V. K. Triandafillov, K.E. Voroshilov and other outstanding military figures. The book was prepared according to the last lifetime edition, to which the author himself made clarifications. In addition, it includes a number of never published materials.