About book: 2021 / The memory of the Great Patriotic War is sacred for the Russian people, because not a single family was left behind, the whole country overcame losses and grief in these difficult years. Every day a feat was accomplished in the rear, every day a feat was accomplished at the front. The Russian soldier was helped in any trouble by ingenuity, combat courage, optimism and love for his home. The book includes poems and stories of poets and writers, eyewitnesses of the Great Patriotic War. They told us about those terrible and great events, about the heroism of the common man.