The main characters of the book: two brothers - an attack pilot and a tanker - fought at the front from the first day of the war. They miraculously survived the fiery forty-first. They learned to fight in the bloody '42. And now - woe to the enemy who encroached on our Motherland! The year 1943 has arrived. The turning point of the Great Patriotic War. Great year of Russian military glory. Paulus's army has already been defeated and captured at Stalingrad. Ahead are Kharkov and Kursk. Ahead is a fiery arc. The steel arc on which we broke the back of the fascist reptile!