About the book: 2023 / The works included in the collection reflect the amazing fate of Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov (1911–1987) - writer, architect, military sapper , emigrant. The story “In the Trenches of Stalingrad” was published almost immediately after the war, in 1946, quickly gained recognition and became one of the first examples of “lieutenant prose” - literature that honestly, without pathos and false pathos, tells about a person in the inhuman conditions of war. The book “In My Hometown” (1954) is about how difficult it is to truly return from the war and to find yourself again. “A Little Sad Tale” (1985), written in exile, is about the loss of illusions, the fragility of friendships and life principles, and the temptations of fame. Nekrasov’s skill as a prose writer is fully manifested in his psychologically accurate and masterfully written stories..