This book is included in the “golden fund” of Russian science fiction. This is a classic of the “alternative history” genre. This is the first large-scale attempt to replay the beginning of the Patriotic War, canceling the catastrophe of 1941, “turning the arrow of history,” rewriting the bloody draft of the Soviet past completely . So, the “blitzkrieg” did not work out. On June 22, 1941, the Red Army expected an attack, and German tank wedges bogged down in a well-prepared defense. Having exhausted the Wehrmacht in protracted defensive battles, Soviet troops retreated in an organized manner to the old border, where they stopped the enemy...