About the book: 1975 / This book tells about the events of the last year of the Great Patriotic War. Author Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel General V. M. Shatilov then commanded the 150th Infantry Order of Kutuzov, II degree, Idritsa Division, which participated in the defeat of fascist German troops on the approaches to the Baltic States and in the Baltic States, in the liberation of fraternal Poland, in the battle on fascist territory Germany. In particular detail, he reproduces pictures of the battles in Berlin, the storming of the last stronghold of the Nazis in the city - the Reichstag and the hoisting of the Victory Banner over it.