Soldiers are not born

January 1943. The Stalingrad Front. The intensity of hostilities has reached its peak, and the scales of the scales begin to decline in favor of the Red Army. This is not only a numerical advantage, but also an unbending will to win, as well as courage and heroism, because they are not born soldiers, but become.

The second book of the classic of the military prose of Konstantin Simonov continues to acquaint readers with the course of the Great Patriotic War. In the center of events is the final stage of the Battle of Stalingrad, the victory in which marked the indigenous fracture in the war. The main characters of the book - senior lieutenant Sintsov and brigade commander Serpilin - continue the difficult front -line path to the defeat of the enemy.
On the pages of the work, front -line reality and life in the rear are skillfully combined in Moscow and Tashkent, the pain of the loss of loved ones and the feelings of the main characters are more vividly shown, but the main idea of ​​the author - "soldiers are not born" invisibly present in the entire book, and Heroic Stalingrad is the best place where combat skill was revealed