The story “New World”, Nn 5.6 1998Origin: /n5-98/astaf.htmOrigin: .htmA great book about the Great War, written by an eyewitness and participant. Only 55 years later, at the time of summing up life’s results, the wonderful writer Viktor Astafiev was able to completely free himself from the fears, illusions, complexes and myths of that war and told the truth about it. We can say that this is a kind of artistic summary of testimony about the war.