About the book: 1972 / Military lyrics made the name of Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov widely known to his compatriots. His poems disturbed the soul of a fighter, raising the spirit and strengthening hope - to defeat the enemy in order to live and love “in spite of all deaths.” Despite the cruel everyday life of the war, the intense rhythm of the work of a front-line correspondent, Simonov perceived the world like a poet, and found the right words for both the Red Army men and women soldiers - to withstand and win, to wait and believe. In these poems, written “in war!”, both the strength of male character and unquenchable love for a woman, for life, for one’s native land.