The book tells the story of Leiba Smilovitsky - a Jewish young man from town Rechitsa (Belarus) during the WW2 and immediately after its ending. The evacuation to Bashkiria (1941), voluntary joining the Red Army (1942), a game of hide and seek with death while serving in the anti-tank artillery Reserve Command, Battle for Smolensk and Vitebsk, captured of Konigsberg, injury, hospital, Gorokhovetsky replacement camp, everyday life, and war. After 1945, he served in the Soviet military counterintelligence SMERSH, graduated from the Minsk Institute of Law, joined the Komsomol. Memories of Leiba Smilovitsky, trusting in tone and riveting, give a genuine representation of the relationships of people during the war and the war perspective on a human life. The book is intended for anyone interested in the history of Soviet society during the Second World War and the psychology of human behavior in the war.