The book is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great Belarusian writer, participant of the Great Patriotic War Vasil Bykov (1924-2003). After graduating from infantry school with the rank of second lieutenant, Bykov fought from the autumn of 1943 until the victorious May 1945; wounded three times, he carried a splinter in his right hand until the end of his days.In all the works of the writer there is one unchanging hero, and this is by no means the author himself, whose invisible presence is somehow noticeable every time. This hero is the truth. And Bykov remained faithful to this hero of his in the darkest years, when he was banned and hounded "from Moscow to the very outskirts."The memoirs "The Long Road Home" became the last book by Vasil Bykov. With his usual frankness, the author tells about the most vivid episodes of his life, gives an assessment of the socio-political and cultural processes that took place before his eyes. And although autobiographical moments are more or less present in most of Bykov's works, this last book is undoubtedly the most confessional.