Okopnaia pravda voiny 1941-1945 gg.

'War - it is a living , human gait - to meet the enemy , toward death , toward eternity. It is human blood on the snow ... It abandoned corpses of soldiers until the spring ... It's a constant hunger when to soldier comes to the company instead of salty food thicker than water , involved on a handful of flour in the form of pale gruel . this cold in the cold and snow in the stone cellars , when ice and frost freezes the living matter in the vertebrae . inhuman conditions ... it is at the forefront , in a hail of shrapnel and bullets. War is as times what not say because I do not know ... ' These words participant heavy fighting on the Kalinin Front from 1941-1943. Guard Captain A.Shumilina may be an epigraph to the book O.Smyslova telling the truth about one of the last war , which until now silent historians, journalists and writers.