About the book: 1985 / August 1945. The most terrible war of the 20th century, which destroyed millions of human lives, is nearing its end. Soviet troops crush the Japanese army in heavy bloody battles... This book is a continuation of the novel "Echelon", based on which the popular television series was filmed. This is a classic of Soviet military prose. This is the truth about the last battles of World War II. This is a hymn to the Russian soldier-liberator. Reading this novel, you believe in the inevitability of our Victory. “What kind of person should I be in order to be worthy of those who died in my place? Will there be bureaucrats, grabbers, and sycophants after the war? Who will answer these questions? I will answer the first. And the second?” Oleg Smirnov’s novel “Inevitability” is dedicated to the final events of the Second World War, its “last salvos” - the defeat and surrender of the Japanese army in 945. Striving to understand the broad panorama of the Soviet-Japanese War, the writer builds a complex, branched narrative, in the field of action of which both ordinary soldiers and military leaders find themselves. In the novel “Echelon” the writer talks about the life of Soviet soldiers in the period between the end of the war with Nazi Germany and the beginning of the war with imperialist Japan.