Story

Vasil Bykov is a writer with a dramatic literary fate. Ruthless criticism and censorship, while all -union fame and millions of circulations - in order to withstand these two extremes, you need to have strength and courage. They could not occupy Bykov: a participant in the fighting, three times wounded, he found his way, choosing a military theme, calling it "most worthy of everything I had experienced in life" and devoting his best prose to her. The undisguised, uninterated truth of war, where fear and betrayal meet with the strength and beauty of the soul, the variability of human feelings, the true depth and realism are the distinctive features of the writer"s stories, which is rightfully recognized by one of the classics of literature of the last century.
The collection illustrates the works of George Poplavsky, who created the figurative, piercing and honest paintings of the war