Civil war is the most brutal of wars. The civil war in the East is doubly cruel. The main character of the novel “The Crimson Land,” a military journalist, goes on a business trip to Afghanistan. And this seemingly ordinary task suddenly turns into a real test for the journalist. A test of fortitude, courage, a sense of duty and justice, regardless of who he had to face - with the soldiers of the Republican army or with the mujahideen opposing them. The story "Purgatory" tells about the bleak, cruel and unpredictable fate of the main victims of the Second World War - prisoners of war . And it doesn’t matter who they are - Russians, Americans or Germans...