About the book: 2018 / It would seem that what new can be said today about Richard Sorge and those who worked with him? Everything is written. It turns out that this is far from true. However, wherever our scouts took us. At times, people in their homeland have hardly heard of the fighting in distant Angola or Ethiopia. And they worked there, served, risked their lives... Among the heroes of the new book are M.E. Boltunova - Captain Mikhail Ivanov, who worked with Richard Sorge and visited Hiroshima, Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Lezzhov - assistant air attaché in Washington, and then head of the Soviet military communications mission at the Commander-in-Chief of the US Army in Germany. Colonel Evgeny Peshkov, the first commander of the first reconnaissance point of military intelligence, arrived in Kabul in the winter of 1980. He was in that war for nine years. Exactly as long as the war lasted, Colonel Mikhail Konovalenko fought in Afghanistan, then passed on his combat experience to the cadets of the training camps of the African National Congress in Angola. Colonel Alexander Erokhin, fortunately, was spared the Afghan epic, but he had enough of other wars - in Ethiopia, Tajikistan, in the Balkans. These are not simple fates for the heroes of the books. I would like to introduce you to them too. Believe me, it's worth it. For we must know these people. Should be proud of them.