We do not know the war...
Us she only on the books of familiar,
According to the stories and songs
Witnesses days of thunder,
In whom until now sound
The echoes of distant thunder,
Who passed through this hell
And accidentally left alive.
A. Pulkin

Many modern writers were front-line soldiers. Come back alive and Belarusian writer and war veteran Vasily Bykov, man under the deadly fire in seventeen years, replacing the school - secondary school by the school of war. A lot has been written about the war... But the bleeding wounds of a soldier... And again he is taken for a pen, to tell us the truth about the everyday life of the guerrilla war.
Yes, the machine gunner Vasily Bykov “he went on the attack, fired at the tanks, silently buried friends, his hands felt the metal shiver machine gun,” so he knew the war from the inside, opposed bombastic heroism of those terrible days, without taking the slightest lies, inaccuracies. In the majority of works about the war soldiers and officers were just a faceless mass. And together supposed to rush to the attack, screaming: “For the Motherland! For Stalin!” and a close-up depicted the “eagles”, ”fairy-tale heroes”, which was reckless, and in the fire they didn't work, and in the water, they did not drown, invulnerable to bullets and mines. Bykov wrote: “the half-Truths we would ask... I was absolutely in another war... About his war can tell only myself... In my opinion, it is useful to talk about honor, of human dignity... And the main argument must be true, what would be the ruthless she may be.”
“Cold.” This is the name of the new book by Vasil Bykau.
Published a book of
In the light,
In the era.
To the contemporaries of the court.
The plot of this story is simple. Damn forty-first year... solidly frozen Belarusian forest... Холдный, продутый winds shack... Dawn. Under one coat sleep two people: Азевич former райкомовский worker, and Gorodilov - district пркурор, who became Commissioner of the partisan detachment. Egor Азевич wakes up from downward in a hut a long silence, and discovers that Gorodilov died, he died not from a bullet, from a cold. It so happened that, after the burial of the high Commissioner, Азевич was left alone in the forest wilderness. What to do next? The test of loneliness is fated to many of the heroes of Vasil Bykov. So here Азевич is in a situation where he had to act without the command and order at your own risk. He is forced to make choices, to make decisions, the payment for which is life. Here and open up to the end, who on what is capable.
t be that this war taught nothing! You can't always, the whole story live in slavery and bondage.”