On behalf of the fire

At the center of Alexei Nikitin''s new novel "In the Face of Fire" is the story of a Kiev Ukrainian-Jewish family. Ilya Goldinov is a boxer, dynamo, Ukrainian heavyweight champion. In the first months of the war Ilya commands a platoon of a partisan regiment, later fights in an infantry division of the Red Army, gets captured, finds an opportunity to be released. In February 1942, he is sent to Ki...