is described, and what else struck me in this book, by the way, in the play staged at the bolshoi drama theater are returning home , and how they are greeted, this is a huge road, transip, at that time he was somewhere in siberia, and he, on the contrary, from the orphanage, makes his way, the opposite way, returns to his home in leningrad , so he sees these people like they come to these huge stations, junction stations, women come, wives come, someone’s entire husband comes to see them. husbands come to someone because they are disabled, disabled , this is a bitter country of war, this boy himself , who travels with these soldiers, who there draws their profile, out of wire, he makes a profile of stalin, this is the atmosphere of the time, it really conveyed in this book is wonderful, great, and it seems to me that this is also such an important facet of military prose, to convey, even if it’s not military, this is exactly what he saw through the eyes of a child, what he saw through the eyes of a teenager, what he remembered, the faces. voices, characters, these are these living people who ma