Hans von Luck's memoirs are primarily a story about the war campaigns of this young and capable officer in the service of the German Wehrmacht. The reader first learns how the young man, in the spirit of family tradition, decided to join the Reichswehr, where he fatefully met the later legendary German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, whose abilities were highly appreciated even by his opponents. During the war, Hans von Luck participated as a battalion commander and later a regiment in all the key campaigns of the Nazi army, first the Blitzkrieg in Poland (1939), under the command of Rommel the attack on France (1940), the invasion of the Soviet Union (1941–1942), later again under the command of Rommel, he participated as the commanding officer of the German Afrika Korps (Deutsches Afrikakorps) in the memorable battles in North Africa (1942–1943) and at the end of the war he participated in the defensive battles of the German army after the start of the successful Allied invasion in Normandy (1944–1945). Shortly before the end of the war, he was captured in a desperate situation by the Soviet army and taken to the Caucasus, where he worked almost until the end of his captivity in a Georgian labor camp in the town of Tkibuli. Hans von Luck's account is not just a classic soldier's account of the battles, but a testimony of the wartime through the eyes of the other side of the barricade. The author's intelligence and extraordinary abilities are evidenced, among other things, by the fact that the highest representatives of the German army were not afraid to entrust him with a political mission, the aim of which was to convince Adolf Hitler of the need to withdraw German armies from North Africa. His testimony is evidence of the growing contradictions between the generals of the German army and the political leadership of the Nazi empire. The memories of the Russian captivity, but also of the clashes with the opponents, reveal von Luck's deep empathy and appreciation even towards his opponents, whom he was able not only to appreciate, but also to show them his compassion.