About the book: 2014 / New book by O.S. Smyslova is an attempt to look through the prism of history during the Great Patriotic War and look at its everyday truth. This is why it is everyday because it contains exactly the same situations and displays exactly the same human qualities and emotions as in peaceful life. There are twelve stories in the book, but each of them is essentially documentary. There are no fictional characters in these stories, and all facts are based on eyewitness accounts and documents. Each story is a story about the difficult war years, about the fate of military personnel. Among the heroes of the book are soldiers and officers, fighter aces, political workers and generals..