Here every meter is the blood .... Stories of the participants in the liberation of Crimea. 1943–1944

This book is not only a story about the most important and, by and large, so far underestimated the event of the Great Patriotic War - the Crimean offensive operation of the Red Army in Spring 1944, nicknamed the Nazis by the second Stalingrad. In the miraculously preserved in the archive, the transcripts of conversations with military personnel who liberated the Crimea and Sevastopol, a special, in a heavenly truth about the war is captured. Averended immediately after the battle as they will never tell later, when the Great Patriotic War will become history.
The war looked differently from the command post and from the trench, from the position of the gunner and the sanitary designer, the eyes of the pilot and the sailor. But these unique evidence presented together in our collection and complemented by rich illustrative material represent a vivid and polyphonic picture, approaching reality.
Sources reveal episodes of mass heroism and self -sacrifice, little -known facts of front -line everyday life.
The collection gives a contemporary a unique opportunity to hear the living voices of the front -line soldiers, to catch their emotional state, to empathize with them the joy of victories and the bitterness of loss. The book is designed for specialists and for a wide range of readers who are interested in their history