From the Arctic to Hungary. Notes of a Twenty-Four-Year-Old Lieutenant Colonel. 1941-1945

Major General Peter Lvovich Bograd refers to those front-line women who passed the Great Patriotic War from the first to the last day. Board, at the beginning of life, P.L. Bograd was in the epicenter of a cruel confrontation. The fate of the young lieutenant, a graduate of the Military School, on June 21, 1941, who arrived on the distribution to the Baltic Special Military District was surprisingly. Together with all he, he experienced the bitterness of the first defeats: retreat, environment, injury. Already in 1942, thanks to an extraordinary ability, P.L. Bograd was put forward by the communities of the rifle battalion. At 22, he became the head of the regiment headquarters, and the war ended by Lieutenant Colonel who acting the position of headquarters of the Rifle Division. His memories of battles, whose participant he was, stunning episodes of fighting and ordinary life on the front are distinguished by the accuracy and scale of the vision of events