About the book: 2014 / There is always a place for heroism in life, but it’s better to stay away from it. Sasha Panov learned this truth a long time ago - heroes are often needed where there are not enough professionals. War is an hour of battle for a month of training, its romance is blood and sweat, and the people going into battle are not cogs. That's why he never wanted to fight... But on someone's whim he will have to be brought back to 1941, to the very beginning of June, real, non-fictional, and play a chess game there, predicting the result of its fatal outcome.