About the book: 1989 / The novel "Volokolamsk Highway" is the most famous and significant work of the remarkable Russian front-line writer Alexander Beck. This story about the heroic defenders of Moscow was read in the rear; it was in the field bags of soldiers at the front. The book was written about in France as a masterpiece, in Italy as the most outstanding work about the war in Russian literature, and in Finland it was studied at the Military Academy.