About the book: 2015 / UDC 82-3BBK 84R2D 38 Childhood, scorched by war: Stories / Comp. V.K. Veprev, A.V. Kamyanchuk. — Irbit: Publishing House “Pechatny Val”, 2015.ISBN 978-5-91342-015-2 Collections of stories and essays included in the book “Ural wounded animals”, “Oh childhood, you have had your fill of grief...”, an excerpt from an art historical novel "Youth" tells the story of the difficult lot of people whose childhood was trampled by the bloody tread of endless wars - the Soviet-Finnish, the Great Patriotic War, the Japanese, which plunged hundreds of millions of human destinies into a merciless whirlwind. The heroes of the book are among us, easily recognizable. They are worthy of the memory of their fellow countrymen. Illnesses, moral and mental trauma from experiences in childhood, early, hard work make themselves felt. The children of war are slowly leaving, leaving forever, but remaining in the memory of descendants for a long time. The book “Childhood Scorched by War” should become a core uniting children whose fathers died in the war, and children whose fathers returned with wounds and with enemy metal in their bodies, children who, together with their parents, suffered the severity of repression... The book is based on memories eyewitness accounts, archival documents. For a wide range of readers.