About the book: 2012 / The name of V. Kurochkin, one of the most original representatives of the writers of the war generation, is well known to the reader from the poignant story "On war as in war”, in which the author, and the one who fought himself, managed to show the everyday ordinariness of military reality and the true heroism that organically exists in it. The writer's pen is characterized by genuine psychologism, laconicism and precision of expression of thoughts, and the ability to create images of living people. The book includes stories about everyday life at the front during the Great Patriotic War and Soviet peaceful reality, which reliably and without the usual omissions capture the atmosphere and characters of those years. Thus, “Notes of the People's Judge Semyon Buzykin” was not published in Soviet times for censorship reasons for 25 years. The heroes of V. Kurochkin’s story “In War as in War” were convincingly created in the feature film of the same name by the famous M. Kononov, O. Borisov, V. Pavlov , F. Odinokov.