Vasil Bykov’s story “His Battalion” ends with the words: “The war continued.” The capture of the heights described by the author is just one of the episodes of the war, of which battalion commander Voloshin will have to endure many and, perhaps, die in one of them. But, no matter how hard it is at the front, you must always remain human: “And the more truly human in a person, the more important for him is his own life and the lives of the people around him.”