This book is a document of history. For the first time in 70 years, all the diaries of children of the Great Patriotic War that AIF journalists were able to discover were collected in one volume. Terrible and honest evidence of what millions of little residents of a great country had to go through and experience. For the sake of their memory, for the sake of preserving these manuscripts, this book was published. More than half of the 35 diaries are published for the first time.

The spelling of the diary authors has been preserved. Printed with abbreviations.