This book is the “true stories” of a soldier of the 56th Air Assault Brigade who fought in Afghanistan from 1984-1986. This is the “trench truth” of the last war of the USSR. The whole truth about life and death “beyond the river.” About “the sound a bullet makes when it hits the sand or stone near your head.” About what it’s like to “get up and run these fucking 10 steps under a hail of “spiritual” bullets.” About how war “pulls out all the brightest and worst that is in each of us.” About the fact that “after Afghanistan we will never be the same again...”