B. Vasiliev (b. 1924), who himself lived through the battlefields, talks about the war openly and realistically. The writer is primarily interested in the problems of love, fidelity, moral duty and sincere feelings in their opposition to cynicism, selfishness, officialdom, and literalism both during war and in peacetime. Films based on his scripts have become cult favorites, and his prose is still read by millions of readers. In the autobiographical story “My Horses Are Flying,” the author reveals the psychology of a compatriot of a controversial era that was in many ways typical of Vasilyev’s generation.