About the book: year / I’ll just tell you about one feat, as I can. The feat that took place, and the people who accomplished it, lived. I am not inclined to idealize the pre-war generation. These were not saints, they were not shining supermen - these were our relatives. And many of us still saw them, and remember them as ordinary grandparents. With its oddities, shortcomings, misconceptions. They were ordinary, living people. The same as we are. And the greater the greatness of their feat.