About the book: 2008 / This war could have dragged on for years, but it lasted only five days. The day it began was immediately noted by numerology lovers as unlucky for serious undertakings. August 8, 2008, 08/08/08. A date that has already become recent history and the main political event of the outgoing year. The author of the book, famous journalist and columnist Orhan Jemal, talks about the “Five-Day War” without propaganda rhetoric. He writes only about what he saw with his own eyes. And sometimes these eyes happened to see terrible things...Together with the Chechen battalion "Vostok" the author walked the path from Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, to the Georgian border.