In the old days, temples were erected on the battlefields in memory of the heroes and martyrs who gave their lives for their homeland. On Kulikovo, on Borodinsky, on Prokhorovsky, military Russian churches are whitening. This book is a temple, put in the glory of the Russian troops who passed the Afghan campaign, who waged the war in Chechnya. I wrote pages and chapters, as the frescoes write, where instead of saints and angels - officers and soldiers of Russia, and instead of horses and halos - "baters," and tanks, and the bloody glow of burning Kabul and Grozny.