About the book: 2000 / From this book, written by a military intelligence officer and scientist, you will learn about the difficult fate of a man born into a poor Jewish family in distant Siberia , who accidentally ended up in Moscow as a child, went through a long and difficult road from a soldier to a lieutenant general, from a junior researcher to a doctor of historical sciences, professor. About Moscow orphanages for street children, about service in military intelligence, about work at the US Institute and Canada, Mikhail Milshtein talks about the vicissitudes of his complex but interesting life.