In recent years, the truth about the past war is beginning to become more and more diluted with fiction - and the need for this truth is becoming more and more important... In the new book of V. G. Rokhmistrov, created on the basis of letters from a German soldier, combat diaries of Hitler's divisions, orders of Soviet military leaders and memoirs of Leningrad militias, a picture of battles on the Luga line is born, which most readers did not even suspect. However, the main idea of ​ ​ the book is that the war, which, in principle, does not allow anyone to remain human, still failed to exterminate the human both in the ranks of the Red Army and in the ranks of the Wehrmacht.