This book is a kind of literary and documentary chronicle of the partisan unit led by S.A. Kovpak, its daring raids into enemy back areas—from the Bryansk forests to Polissya, from Kyiv region to the Carpathians.
In vivid, accurate sketches, we see the legendary commander of the unit S.A. Kovpak, his commissar S.V. Rudnev, the chief of staff G.Ya. Bazym, and other brave partisans—people with a clear conscience who did not spare their lives in order to protect their Motherland from German fascist invaders.