The book by front-line journalist Sergei Dyshev “Lost Platoon” is unique. This is the bitter and merciless truth about real events and people who went to fulfill their “international duty” and found themselves in the bloody mess of the long and difficult Afghan war. This book by an eyewitness, written from a trench, is about those who experienced everything in full: stormed heights under dagger fire and lost fighting friends, burned in armored personnel carriers, was crossed off the list of the living - and survived.