They went through the most terrible battles of the Great Patriotic War, but on their account there are no killed - only saved lives. Their hands are elbow-deep in blood - but they are remembered with a kind word, they are prayed for, thousands of soldiers saved by them were called their names. They themselves have repeatedly risked their heads, working under fire, each of them pulled hundreds of our fighters from the other world, thanks to their feat millions returned to duty. Veterans know that real hell is not even on the front line, but in sanbats, infirmaries and front-line hospitals, where human pain and the whole horror of war appear in an extremely condensed, concentrated form. Doctors of the Great Patriotic War - military doctors, nurses, nurses, military partners - lived and worked in this hell for years, looking into the face of death every day, from their simple, artless stories about what they saw and experienced - frost on the skin and a lump in the throat.