About the book: 1966 / Eight communists from Yelnya and nearby villages went into the forests in the first months of the Great Patriotic War. More than four thousand patriots soon rallied around them, forming the partisan regiment named after Sergei Lazo. As a result of daring raids on the invaders, the partisans of this regiment liberated and held in their hands for a long time about three hundred settlements, captured from the enemy more than one hundred machine guns, heavy mortars, cannons and even several tanks. The author of the book, A.F. Yudenkov, is a former commissar of the regiment named after Sergei Lazo. Simply and sincerely, as if talking with an old friend who met after a long separation, he talks about the events that unfolded in the forests of the Smolensk region almost a quarter of a century ago. And the partisan commissar has something to remember. The book “Beyond the Fire Line” will be read with interest by people of various ages and professions..