Marshal of the Soviet Union K. S. Moskalenko had an amazing life - he fought with the detachments of Makhno and Wrangel, went through the Finnish War and the Patriotic War, liberated Kharkov, Kyiv and Prague from the Germans, met in 1945 during a reception in honor of the Victory in the Kremlin with Joseph Stalin, and in 1953 he arrested Lavrenty Beria, in 1961 he led the flight of the first man into space - Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, participated in the testing of atomic bombs and missiles, was close to N. S. Khrushchev and L. I. Brezhnev, was friends with the poet Konstantin Simonov, was Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR and Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, member of the CPSU Central Committee since 1956, author of the two-volume memoirs “In the South-Western Direction.” Immersion in the biography of this extraordinary man captivates the reader more than the most poignant novel, since there is a lot of truth in it, in which both unjustified blasphemy and glory are presented equally... The book is addressed to the widest circle of readers interested in the history of our country and the fate of the heroes our Fatherland.