About the book: 1961 / Writer Gennady Ivanovich Goncharenko met the war on the border as the commander of a machine-gun platoon. During the difficult years for our Motherland, he took part in the battles of the Volga and Stalingrad as deputy commander of a rifle regiment. He wrote a novel-duology “Years of Testing” about these events, published in 1956. Everything that the twenty-year-old lieutenant saw and experienced was reflected in his work, dedicated to his peers - heroes of military exploits.