About the book: 1983 / The author, a former military commissar of the 19th Mechanized Corps, talks in his memoirs about the events of the first months of the war. He writes excitedly about the heavy battles of rifle, tank and artillery units, units and formations of the corps, in which he took a direct part, against the strike group of Nazi troops operating in the Kiev direction. The book clearly shows the unparalleled courage of communists and non-party fighters and commanders who fiercely fought for every inch of land, their unbending fortitude, great faith in the rightness of our sacred cause, boundless love for the Motherland, from which every Soviet person drew the strength necessary to defeat the enemy..