This book is an extremely frank confession of a young lieutenant - "jacket" (specialty - translator from Arabic), who went through his Chechen war in the GRU special forces detachment... This terribly true story (many characters have real prototypes) about how people in war are forced to walk along the shaky and thin edge of life and death, morality and legality, along the very edge of human capabilities... But first of all, this book about how war changes, not only externally, any person