About the book: 1982 / This book was written over the course of five years by a nurse at a Sukhumi hospital, Evdokia Afanasyevna Mukhina (Melnikova), at that time a deputy and member Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In September 1941, a 16-year-old Komsomol member voluntarily joined the Red Army. A little girl - she was 13-14 years old - having received the specialty of a radio operator in the army, she was thrown behind enemy lines. She helped intelligence officers, underground fighters and partisans. Mukhina writes about her military youth, spiritual and professional growth with her characteristic simplicity and spontaneity. The book is intended for the mass reader.