NEW book from the author of the bestseller “Rzhev Massacre”. The whole truth about the tragedy of the 29th Army, which lost thousands of soldiers in the Monchalovsky “cauldron”, but broke through from encirclement. Tvardovsky wrote his most piercing poems about this “meat grinder” - “I was killed near Rzhev.” And on the monuments to the missing heroes of the Battle of Rzhev it is inscribed: “Forgive us.” “Let the victory be bitter and the losses uncountable, / And the landing company freezes in Monchalovo: / This is our country. Our Motherland is here. / But I still don’t feel like dying…”