Ilya Ehrenburg’s book “War 1941–1945” is the first publication in the last 60 years of selected articles by the most popular military publicist of the USSR. The collection includes two hundred articles out of one and a half thousand written by Ehrenburg during the four years of the war - from June 22, 1941 to May 9, 1945 (some of them are published for the first time from manuscripts). The pamphlets, reports, leaflets, feuilletons, and reviews included in the collection were written mainly for front and rear soldiers. They were published in central and local, front-line, army and partisan newspapers, heard on the radio, and published as brochures and books. The whole country knew and waited for them - from soldiers to marshals, from workers of evacuated factories that produced ammunition, to peasants who fed the army. Ehrenburg’s messages for foreign news agencies and translations of his articles from “Red Star” were also popular in the anti-Hitler countries of America and Europe, where they were openly published in newspapers and published in books. In the occupied countries they were distributed underground. Ehrenburg's articles are not only a kind of chronicle of military events; this is a direct and accurate expression of the furious intensity of the great and tragic struggle, the result of which was Victory.