About the book: 2017 / The book you hold in your hands is not a simple literary work. This is a truly noteworthy story with action-packed, exciting and touching moments, making you feel sad and empathetic, observing the willpower of people who found themselves on the brink and retained a human face, and those who became like animals. And most importantly, this book illustrates the events of our history that divided it into before and after, which will forever remain in our genetic memory. Everything that you will see on the pages of this book is not fiction, but a presentation of real events through the prism of the perception of their participants.