On black front -line snow

Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov is a famous writer and screenwriter, one of the representatives of the lieutenant prose ". In 1941, he volunteered to the front, fought in the infantry and artillery, participated in battles in Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Austria.
His works about the war with great difficulty were published in Soviet times, the fate of the film “was the month of May ", shot according to his script, Marlen Khutsiev. The reason for this is the severe and bitter episodes of the war shown by Baklanov, which often went against the "ceremonial" history.
In his memoirs given in this book, he spoke about his youth, fleeing to the front, as they fought at the front, of a post -war life. There are a lot of interesting details about events, an atmosphere of pre -war, military and post -war periods. Everything is written in an excellent language, truthfully, without hiding, with pain for the country and people