"If only there was no war!" - this slogan has suffered throughout Soviet history. The price of the Great Victory was so great, the losses are so monstrous, and the turning point of the people's destiny is so terrible that the memory of the tragedy still hurts, already at the genetic level. Because any war, even the fairest one, even the Great Patriotic War, is hell, blood and pain, unbearable suffering and irreparable loss... It is possible and should glorify the Victory and pay honors to the heroes. But the war itself - it will disappear! This book is a true history of the Second World War, without silence and looking at officialdom, without embellishment. This is a terrible truth about the greatest catastrophe in human history, which hit our country the hardest.