The first issue of the almanac "Feat" for 1988 included the works: "Silence" by Yuri Bondarev and "The Fall of the Forest King" by Boris Mozhaev. The novel "Silence" tells about how former front-line soldiers, two young men, childhood friends entered into a peaceful life. They are intensely looking for their place in life. The action of the novel unfolds in the post-war years, in dramatic circumstances, which are for the main characters of the work, yesterday's front-line soldiers, another, after testing by fire, test of the "strength" of mental and moral forces. A cloudless future seems ahead. But in peacetime, yesterday's fellow soldiers can become enemies...