About the book: year / Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev (1924–2020) became famous for his books about the war, written on the basis of his own military experience. For him, the Battle of Stalingrad of 1942, described in the novel “Hot Snow,” or the heavy battles during the crossing of the Dnieper in 1943, which are described in the story “Battalions Ask for Fire,” are not just pages of history, but stages of his own front-line biography. The collection also includes stories written in the 1950s and dedicated to the events of 1944–1945: “The Last Salvos” and “Youth of Commanders.” “The Prose of Lieutenants” allows you to feel what is behind the dry reports of losses, tells without embellishment how what people at the front live and die for. The famous front-line writer Vasil Bykov once said, paraphrasing a famous saying: “We all came from Bondarev’s “Battalions”“…»