About the book: year / Black with grief, the beginning of July forty-one, the wedges of German tank divisions are rushing towards Moscow and Leningrad, six Soviet armies of the first strategic echelon are surrounded and were completely defeated in a border battle. The front, torn to shreds, is rapidly rolling to the east, and towards it, from the depths of the Soviet Union, troops from the internal districts are rushing in echelons to stand before the enemy as an “indestructible” wall and die in the next battles, because these forces are not enough even for active defense, and Marshal Timoshenko was dreaming about counter-offensives. The Soviet military doctrine of “little loss of life on foreign territory” has already crumbled to dust, and Comrade Stalin has already said his historical words: “Lenin left us a great power, and we are about it...”, but still orders are flying from Moscow to the troops : “Stop, defeat, destroy,” and peacetime generals build Napoleonic plans, for the implementation of which they have neither the strength, nor the means, nor military talent. And at this moment, the fighting country comes to the rescue in the guise of God’s Scourge and Defender of the Russian Land the frantic Artan prince Seregin, who is tasked with stopping the enemy invasion and bringing some sense into the Soviet leadership in order to turn the fury of war from east to west, into the European lair of the fascist beast.