People, years, life. Concern for the future.

In this volume, I. Ehrenburg tells about the events of the 1930s: the first congress of Soviet writers, international anti-fascist congresses of writers in Paris and in Spain, in which the author took an active part, about meetings with I. Ilf and E. Petrov, M. Koltsov and A. Zhdanov, E. Hemingway and A. Machado, about the civil war in Spain, the terrible trial of N. Bukharin. He also narrates about the years of the Great Patriotic War and his enormous work on covering it in the press: Ehrenburg's goal was to help the country defeat the enemy. The reader will learn about the author's trips to the front, his meetings with ordinary soldiers and famous military leaders - G. Zhukov, K. Rokossovsky, I. Chernyakhovsky, and L. Govorov, writers K. Simonov and V. Grossman, artist P. Konchalovsky, and many others.