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The author of the book is Ivan Dmytryk, a rifleman of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, from the kuren of Commander Ren, who operated in the Lemkivshchyna in 1944-1947. The author wrote down his memoirs after arriving in the West in 1947-1949, when all the events were still firmly fixed in his memory. He described them sincerely, without pretence, as he saw and experienced them. However, he observed them through the eyes of a young man and from the position of an ordinary rifleman. It is possible that in some cases, if a commander, who, of course, knew and saw more than the shooter, were to describe those events, he would give them a slightly different interpretation. But Ivan Dmytryk does not try to comment. He just tells the story. And this is the greatest value of his memoirs.

Ivan Dmytryk talks mostly about his hundred (the number of its field mail was "U-94"), although his memoirs do not lack information about other UPA units that operated, if not constantly, then for some time, in the same area.

The author begins the story from his first day in the UPA. The Lemko land is in disarray - the Germans are retreating, Soviet troops are advancing. Against the backdrop of this chaos, the good organisation and thoughtfulness of the UPA's actions contrast sharply. We see how hundreds and huts are set up, how they are provided with food, how preparations for the crossing of the front and the crossing itself take place: from the camp at Bukovy Berd, two and a half thousand troops with a large convoy cross the front in a forced march in three weeks without a single casualty. The author proves that this transition was possible only thanks to the support of the Ukrainian population and the OUN intelligence service, which knew about every movement of the enemy.