About the book: 2021 / Andrei Platonov, one of the most famous Soviet writers, publicist and playwright, volunteered for the front at the beginning of the war. Soon he was transferred to serve in the newspaper "Red Star", as its correspondent he visited near Rzhev, the Kursk Bulge, Ukraine and Belarus. Constantly seeing the "terrible face of war", he could not write everything in his articles, so he became an outlet for he included letters to his wife and especially notebooks - there are details of front-line life that are rarely found even in the most truthful works about the war. In addition, the book includes essays and stories by Andrei Platonov, showing heroic and tragic episodes of the Great Patriotic War.