The cruel truth of war. Memories of an Infantryman

Vasil Vladimirovich Bykov is a world-famous writer, whose fame was brought by novels and stories about the war. Bykov experienced its horrors and hardships firsthand, fighting at the front in the infantry for three years. He took part in the battles for Ukraine and Moldova, liberated Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Austria from the Nazis. Vasil Bykov''s memoirs are distinguished by extr...