The events of the Great Patriotic War are increasingly moving away from us in time. There are already few people left in this world who survived this war. And many of its secrets are still not revealed. They are also kept in the archives of the special services. The book by a professional journalist, reserve colonel of the state security agencies Alexander Vitkovsky, who had access to materials that until recently were classified as strictly classified, is about the secrets of the life and death of the most famous prisoner of the Great Patriotic War, Yakov Dzhugashvili, resident of the Soviet military intelligence Richard Sorge, about the recruitment of illegal intelligence officers, about the interrogations of the leaders of the Third Reich and much more, is written on the basis of recently declassified FSB documents.