Paratroopers and Marines, reconnaissance and artillerymen, fighter pilots, infantrymen, sappers, anti-aircraft gunners, penalty soldiers - the heroes of this book went through the most terrible battles in human history and hundreds of times looked into the face of death, from their artless stories about the war - frost skin and a lump in the throat, be it the testimony of a participant in the battles in the Sinyavinsky swamps, after which 7 people remained alive from his regiment, the confession of encirclement and partisans who experienced a monstrous famine that led people to cannibalism, revelations of front-line intelligence officers who called “suicide bombers”, or the memories of the commander of a penal company... Having gone through the horrors of the bloodiest war in history, the heroes of this book will tell you the whole truth about the Great Patriotic War - the true, “trench” one, without censorship, omissions or embellishments. IN WAR AS IN WAR!