This book is included in the “golden fund” of Russian science fiction. This is a classic of the “alternative history” genre. This is the first large-scale attempt to replay the beginning of the Patriotic War, canceling the disaster of 1941, “turning the arrow of history,” rewriting the bloody draft of the Soviet past white. So, the “blitzkrieg” did not work out. On June 22, 1941, the Red Army expected an attack, and German tank wedges bogged down in a well-prepared defense. Having exhausted the Wehrmacht in protracted defensive battles, Soviet troops retreated in an organized manner to the old border, where they stopped the enemy...