Intelligence is the eyes and ears of the army... This simple phrase describes the importance of intelligence. But how can we describe what reconnaissance is? The award sheet for one of the reconnaissance officers says: “repeatedly carried out command assignments for reconnaissance and capturing control prisoners.” What is the meaning behind this “repeatedly performed”? What was the cost of each search behind the front line, the capture of the “language”? Only the scouts themselves know and can tell about this. And each of their evidence is worth its weight in gold - because their chances of surviving were an order of magnitude less than that of other front-line soldiers. The new book of the Artem Drabkin project is just such a story from intelligence officers. Those who “torn the wire, took the “tongue”, those without whom Victory was simply impossible.