The novel “My Lieutenant” by the wonderful Russian writer Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin is a look at the Great Patriotic War from the inside out, not from the point of view of generals and marshals who calmly send entire armies into the heat and meat grinder, but from the inside, from the trenches and trenches. Against the backdrop of the hardships, horrors and ugliness of war, the author gives an opportunity to speak out to a simple lieutenant, one of those to whom we owe our victory. Those whose deaths were reported by official Information Bureau reports as “minor losses in local battles.”