"War is hell. And the infantry is from hell hell. After all, you go to the execution all the time! You go first!" It is about such books that they say: it is written in blood. You can't read this in any novel, you can't see it in the movies. This is the real "trench truth" of the Great Patriotic War. Only veterans can tell so frankly, so confessionally, piercingly and reliably about the war. Although the Second World War is called the "war of engines," despite all the successes of tanks and aviation, the main role on the battlefield continued to be played by the "queen of the fields" infantry. It was she who bore the brunt of the war on her shoulders. It was the infantry that accounted for the lion's share of losses. It was the infantrymen who raised the Victory Banner over the Reichstag. You will hear their living voices in this book.