Front-line letters from young Heinrich Böll to his wife tell about the horrors and senselessness of war, about the hardships of life and the mental anguish that he experiences in separation from his loved one. Böll's wife, Annemarie, was his interlocutor in letters throughout the long war years; her sympathy and love helped the young man, who later became a famous writer and Nobel Prize laureate, endure all the suffering and not lose heart. Published in Russian for the first time.