Nine hundred days of courage

The book unites two documentary novels by Valery Voskoboboinikov: "nine hundred days of courage" and "Vasily Vasilievich" dedicated to the defenders of Leningrad in the tragic time of the blockade.
The first story tell the exploits of ordinary people: as a driver Maxim Hold Khleb, after three days without sleeping, children in Leningrad Mandarins by the New Year, like the fifteen years of Dasha Pakhomova, becomes a fighter of the Komsomol household squad, as Tanya Savicheva leads his unique document of history Diary entries, as the city saved during air anxiety, how the monuments were preserved and hidden - about that. How Leningraders helped each other to survive.
The second story talks about the legendary worker of the Polygraphmash plant - a boy of fourteen years old Vasya Ivanov (all called him Vasily Vasilievich) The war took his parents ... by replacing the elders from the machine, he works better than many adults, and even manages to train others and understands how many lives each part made at the factory can save. It was Vasily Ivanov that was captured on the poster of the artist Alexei Pakhomov "everything for the front! Everything for victory! "
Illustrations for the book were created by the artist Vladimir Shevchenko - during the Great Patriotic War, who served as a driver on the front line.
For children of primary and secondary school age