Novels about the Great Patriotic War that are exceptional in their truth. The roar of distant explosions, the smell of gunpowder, the clanging of caterpillars - the terrible signs of war come to life again on the pages of books written by the grandchildren of those who reached Berlin back in 1945. “War, in the full sense of the word, is before my eyes... I am for the first time days witnessed the death of two infantry regiments with their commanders. War is a scary thing... especially for infantry. I live on the regiment’s outpost and saw the assault, and now I am contemplating a field covered with gray greatcoats. They will lie there for a long time!” This book is a trench story. But it differs from the “lieutenant stories” created by writers in a homely, peaceful environment, years after the end of the war. This book was written in the trenches. The author used his father's letters that came from the front, processed them literary, and added his father's oral stories. This is a chronicle of the entire war, a true view from the trenches.