The book was written by a fighter of a partisan detachment created in the first days of the Great Patriotic War in Pinsk. The detachment under the command of V.3. On June 28, 1941, Korzha fought the first partisan battle with the Nazis in the history of World War II. The author talks not only about battles, attacks and sabotage. He analyzed the reasons and motivations that caused mass resistance to the fascists in the occupied territory. Written 60 years after the Great Victory, the book is a memoir-reflection on the driving and organizing forces of popular resistance, on the origins of military defeats, on the contribution to the defeat of the enemy of the partisan movement as a phenomenon that changed , according to German generals, the progress of the war. This is a response to those who in our time are trying to cast a shadow on the partisan movement and on people who endured incredible trials, but did not flinch.