Mohsen Motlagh was about to finish his studies when the idea of joining the military forces at wartime crossed his mind, and he let this spark erupt into a raging blaze of enthusiasm. He opens the story with the reformation of Kumail Battalion and then recounts the stories of the warriors and their situations, talks, prayers, and martyrdom. Adopting a direct and sincere tone of voice and viewpoint breathes life into his narrative, conjuring up the images of lived moments and experiences of the war events and his comrades. In addition, a detailed account of the events is another enlivening feature of his prose, allowing him to depict glaring differences between this war of Iranian warriors and other forces and battles. This narrative very successfully and painstakingly features both joy and sorrow of the comrades and juxtaposes their playful merriment with night-time prayers and mourning. He has also kept a record of all his comrades' poems, coined terms, and funny phrases; this clearly shows the reason why the Iranian warriors were not able to leave their fellow combatants, the war-zone obsessions, and the operations behind; they, instead, volunteered to go to the front line with alacrity. The most harrowing moments in the book are when Motlagh is fighting at the front and sees his comrades, one after another, rolling in their blood after being shot; he then mourns for the martyrs and describes how greatly they are missed and how strongly he desires to join his martyred friends. Mohsen Motlagh was about to finish his studies when the idea of joining the military forces at wartime crossed his mind, and he let this spark erupt into a raging blaze of enthusiasm. He opens the story with the reformation of Kumail Battalion and then recounts the stories of the warriors and their situations, talks, prayers, and martyrdom. Adopting a direct and sincere tone of voice and viewpoint breathes life into his narrative, conjuring up the images of lived moments and experiences of the war events and his comrades. In addition, a detailed account of the events is another enlivening feature of his prose, allowing him to depict glaring differences between this war of Iranian warriors and other forces and battles. This narrative very successfully and painstakingly features both joy and sorrow of the comrades and juxtaposes their playful merriment with night-time prayers and mourning. He has also kept a record of all his comrades' poems, coined terms, and funny phrases; this clearly shows the reason why the Iranian warriors were not able to leave their fellow combatants, the war-zone obsessions, and the operations behind; they, instead, volunteered to go to the front line with alacrity. The most harrowing moments in the book are when Motlagh is fighting at the front and sees his comrades, one after another, rolling in their blood after being shot; he then mourns for the martyrs and describes how greatly they are missed and how strongly he desires to join his martyred friends. Mohsen Motlagh, while embroiled in the war, provided a detailed account of the imposed war between Iran and Iraq, and managed to accurately depict the physical and spiritual states of the warriors, thus making this work a fertile ground for sociological studies. A prime example of this is Eric Beutel who drew inspirations from this book to write his Ph.D. dissertation on the anthropological and sociological study of the concept of martyrdom based on literary works of war.   This book came in second in the Festival "20 Years of Resistance Literature" in 2001, under the category of memoirs.