About the book: year / "...The number “three” turned out to be unlucky for me, a nineteen-year-old lieutenant. Three days after I took over as company commander, I experienced three failures in a row. The regiment commander made me the third and last, as he said, reprimand for the disorder in the barracks; on the same day three of my subordinates disappeared, and, finally, three pairs of felt boots disappeared from the company».