The present book contains memoirs of the biography of martyr Esmail Daghayeghi, commander of the 9th Badr Brigade, who was martyred in Karbala 5 Operations. The book contains 17 sections and includes: memories of the migration of the martyr with the family from Behbahan to Aghajari due to family’s financial difficulties and dire economic conditions, the activities against the Pahlavi regime before the revolution and his attempt to blow up and demolish Reza Shah’s statute, apprehension, imprisonment, interrogation and torture by SAVAK (secret police) and expulsion from the school due to being known as a saboteur, the university period and launching a library with the diligence of martyr Daghayeghi, his lectures in the classroom and creating trouble for the univer-sity professors, memories of the time spent at the front, the Holy Defense and the liberation of Fakka Village from the enemy forces, serving as the religious kingpins’ bodyguard, the founding of the 9th Badr Brigade by martyr Daghayeghi composed of the penitents and Mujahid Iraqis who were seeking to cooperate with Iran, and finally, the last days and the method of martyrdom around the city of Basra . . .

Mohsen Motlagh (1969-Tehran) Mohsen Motlagh, went to battlefront when he was a teenager and stayed there under the influence of that atmos-phere until the end of the war. Motlagh began writing about the war with the book Viva Komeil. After the war, he studied industrial design at the University of Science and Technology in Tehran, and gained some experience in music too and has been playing reed for years.