Secrets in the attic -- The journey east -- Introduction to the trenches -- The hardest thing -- Marianovka -- the first battle -- According to Haas -- A true Russian winter -- Into Romania -- Long hot summer on the Dniester -- Romanian respite -- The Iron Cross -- The last battle -- In Russian hands -- The events at Balti -- Kiev -- Pushkin's request -- Encounter with a spoon -- The reluctant spy -- The German plot -- Homeward -- Vienna -- End of the odyssey.