Our eighteenth autumn
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Yesterday, the stall was worried about the assessment in mathematics, so much so that the nightmares were dreaming, and today I already received a summons for the front. Yesterday"s classmates will joke and tease each other at the draft point, as if war is still somewhere far, in another, terrible world. But the general memories of campaigns in the mountains, dancing and first loves will sharply break off the reality of the first cruel battle. Adult life will begin suddenly and scary - with the roar of tanks and the rupture of shells.
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There is a village of Elkhotovo in North Ossetia in the Caucasus. On both sides, it is compressed by the Sunzhen mountains. White Saman houses under the tiled roofs drown in gardens. Dances and wastelands overgrown with horse -drawn sorrel and nettles. Behind the extreme houses, the Terek grumbles, rolling over stones. And in the village of Silence ... The guys playing in the Terek Valley behind the village often digging rifle sleeves from the ground, interrupted clips and twisted, jagged pieces of metal. Only from the stories of grandfathers they know that these are traces of the battle that thundered over the village in September 1942. Many years later, Nikolai Vnukovo again had a chance to visit those places, go along the Terek Valley, stand on the new bridge, see those mountains, and he remembered how all this was ...
for children of middle school age
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There is a village of Elkhotovo in North Ossetia in the Caucasus. On both sides, it is compressed by the Sunzhen mountains. White Saman houses under the tiled roofs drown in gardens. Dances and wastelands overgrown with horse -drawn sorrel and nettles. Behind the extreme houses, the Terek grumbles, rolling over stones. And in the village of Silence ... The guys playing in the Terek Valley behind the village often digging rifle sleeves from the ground, interrupted clips and twisted, jagged pieces of metal. Only from the stories of grandfathers they know that these are traces of the battle that thundered over the village in September 1942. Many years later, Nikolai Vnukovo again had a chance to visit those places, go along the Terek Valley, stand on the new bridge, see those mountains, and he remembered how all this was ...
for children of middle school age
Author:
Author:Vnukov Nikolay Andreevich
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Children's Book
- Category:Historical Literature
Series:
Series: scorched by war
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-907401-08-2
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