The forest of pierced helmets

The final novel of the trilogy of the famous military writer Nikolai Cherkashin, dedicated to the events of the initial period of the Great Patriotic War in Western Belarus (the first two books “Brest Gate” and “God does not play bones” published in the publishing house “Veche” in 2020 and 2021, respectively) The plot is based on the fighting of the 3rd? The army of the Western Front and the fate of its commander General Kuznetsov, Lieutenant General Karbyshev, as well as many other actually existing fighters and commanders. Numerous battal episodes related to the defense of the city of Grodno, the capture of the fortification dungeon of the rainworm camp, are permeated by the lyrical stories of three leading heroes - captain of Shibarsky, Lieutenant Roostelga and Major Demchenko. The novel ends, and with it the entire three -volume epic storming of the Reichstag and the epoch -making hoisting over him of the Banner of Victory