Yevgen Polozhiy (Sumy), 47 years old, is a well-known journalist and writer. Folio publishing house published his novels "Train", "Mary and her airport", "Uncle named God", "Towers of Silence", "Yuriy Yuriyovych, the favorite of women", "Fish children"."Ilovaisk" is a book about the courage, incredible heroism and humanity of Ukrainian soldiers and officers, fighters of volunteer battalions, battalions of Teroborony, all those who found themselves at the end of August 2014 in the "Ilovaisk Cauldron", which became the biggest defeat of the Ukrainian army in during the war in the east. This is an honest book about the war, which, as you know, has not made anyone better, on the other hand, in the midst of blood, fire and iron, people remain people.The author heard the stories of about a hundred participants in the Ilovai tragedy, the book is based on real events . Nevertheless, please consider all coincidences of names, surnames and callsigns as accidental.