About the book: 1987 / The name of the Voronezh writer Maxim Podobedov is well known from his works “On the Last Boundary”, “The Ascension”, “The Birth of Man”. In In the first book of the novel “What They Dreamed About,” the author talks about the residents of the village of Danilovka, located in the Voronezh region. The action takes place in the pre-war years. In the second book - “They went to the front” the events unfold already during the Great Patriotic War. M. Podobedov traces the fate of many collective farmers in the novel, shows the formation and maturation of the characters of young people in work and at the front, writes about friendship and love.