Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov is the last (by date of assignment of the title) Marshal of the Soviet Union. Life path of D.T. Yazov is the path of a soldier serving his homeland and faithful to the oath, which, as we know, is taken only once. Dmitry Yazov voluntarily joined the Red Army in November 1941, without having time to graduate from high school. He was wounded in battle, awarded the order...In 1987, D.T. Yazov was appointed to the post of Minister of Defense of the USSR and defended the Soviet state to the end, which he swore to serve faithfully back in the terrible 41st. August 19, 1991 D.T. Yazov became a member of the State Emergency Committee, for which he was later arrested and spent several months in prison. As D.T. writes in the preface to the book. Yazov, the famous writer Vladimir Karpov, “in his work, Dmitry Timofeevich acted like an experienced writer, he did not follow the trampled memoir paths. Chapters about the catastrophe called “perestroika” are interspersed with memories of the Great Patriotic War. And the pages that convey the highest intensity of the fateful events of August 1991, and then describe the author’s stay in prison, are supported by textured layers of life and service in peacetime.”