About the book: 1970 / Ivan Svistunov in his new novel traces the fate of the working guys who stepped from the quarries of a brick factory into a big life, and fought courageously during the war years with the enemy and reached Berlin. Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Poluyarov ends the war as a regiment commander, Major Alexei Khvorostov as a political commissar, Lieutenant Semyon Karaibog as a platoon commander. Their front roads were difficult. Not all heroes lived to see the bright day of Victory. But they all believed that there would be victory anyway, May would come. The reader knows Ivan Svistunov from the novels “Hearts in Order”, “To Live and Remember”».