This book is a story about the astonishing life of Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin—a man who went from being an enlisted man in the Russian Imperial Army to becoming Marshal of the Soviet Union.
The courage and abilities of the future marshal became obvious to his contemporaries even during the First World War. After the revolution, штабс-капитан Tolbukhin joined the Bolsheviks and entered the Red Army. His rise to new heights began. The events of the Great Patriotic War made F. I. Tolbukhin one of the most famous Soviet commanders; his contribution to defeating the enemy was duly appreciated by the government, and thus F. I. Tolbukhin became a Knight of the Order of “Victory.”