About the book: year / An interesting thing, the human psyche. Only recently I was shaking disgustingly before a fight, like a simple greenhorn, and I felt an unpleasantly disgusting weakness in my legs. But after the first shot, everything changed as if by magic. Objects around, people, and enemy equipment immediately acquired extraordinary clarity, the brain automatically recorded strengths and weaknesses, gave approximate characteristics and forecasts for combat potential. Everything unnecessary, emotional, and unimportant in a combat situation was moved somewhere into the background so as not to clog up information flows and not interfere with quick decision-making. This is what a professional warrior means, this was exactly what I tried to get rid of for so long and what prevented me from fully integrating into normal civilian life. And then there was a bang, and again I plunged into such familiar emotions and a fighting state. So it’s written in the family... Into battle! The image of Sergei Badyuk was used to create the cover..