From school to the front. We were waiting for a deadly fire

Bulat Okudzhava, Russian poet, bard, prose writer and screenwriter, graduated from the school in 1941 on the eve of the Great Patriotic War. Like many of his peers, he immediately began to ask for the front, and was soon determined into the mortar division. In the heavy battles of 1942, Okudzhava was seriously wounded, he was awarded the medal "for the defense of the Caucasus" and the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree for combat merits.
In his autobiographical novels, Bulat Okudzhava showed the tragic fate of the young man of the pre -war generation, from the school of the enemy, who fell under the deadly fire of the enemy. In these works, the war is shown just the way yesterday’s schoolchildren saw it, whose ideas about her sometimes diverged far from reality