About the book: year / The novel takes place in 1941. The Soviet Union launches a pre-emptive strike against German troops concentrated near its borders. The plot is based on real pre-war plans of the USSR, which are currently in the public domain. All the characters in the novel have real prototypes, and, although slightly differently, they repeat their fate in real life. The style of the novel deliberately in many ways resembles the text of the script for the film epic “Liberation”».