“Here begins hell!” - the Germans installed such a sign on the road to Myasnoy Bor, where the 2nd Shock Army perished in the Valley of Death. But even those who escaped from this underworld were not destined to escape the “shadow of death” - the remnants of the army that emerged from the “cauldron” were thrown into a new offensive, a frontal assault on the impregnable Sinyavinsky heights, into the pitch hell of merciless battles for destruction. Day after day, attack after attack, they litter the damned slopes with their bodies. Week after week they bleed to death under heavy fire. But there, ahead, Leningrad is dying of starvation - which means they are obliged to break the blockade at any cost! Having passed through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, they must not descend, but ascend into the underworld and take the Hellish Heights! A new novel from the author of the best-selling books “Desantura 1942” and “We Will Die Yesterday.” The terrible truth about the Leningrad blockade and the bloody suffering of 1942.