Letters from the front. "I saw the terrifying face of war"

Andrei Platonov, one of the most famous Soviet writers, publicist and playwright, and at the beginning of the war volunteered for the front. Soon he was transferred to serve in the newspaper Red Star, as its correspondent, he visited Rzhev, on the Kursk arc, Ukraine and in Belarus.
constantly seeing the "terrible face of war", he could not write everything in his articles, so letters to his wife and especially notebooks became an outlet for him - there are such details of the front -line life that you rarely find even in the most truthful works about war.
In addition, the book includes the essays and stories of Andrei Platonov, showing the heroic and tragic episodes of the Great Patriotic War