Important book for all interested in history. Soldier of the Czechoslovak army which he joined voluntarily to fight the Nazis arrested by Soviet KGB on denunciation by his communist compatriots in the army and accused from anti-Nazi propaganda - at that time the Soviets had a non-aggression pact with Hitler - and sentenced to 25 years in Gulag where he spent 16 (sixteen) years. He returned home as the last soldier of the Czechoslovak army in exile from the Gulag [after Stalin's death and following Kruschev's reform] to political persecution by Czech communist still morbid Stalinists.