The famous trilogy of the remarkable front-line writer Vasily Dmitrievich Sokolov (1919-1990) tells about the time of difficult trials and great feats of the Soviet people, not broken by the tragedy of 1941 and who found in themselves the heroic strength to restrain and defeat the enemy. The third book completes the author’s epic narrative about the destinies and characters of the participants in the Great Patriotic War. Along with fictional characters, our outstanding commanders also act in the novel: Marshals of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov, K.K. Rokossovsky, F.N. Tolbukhin and others.