About the book: 2009 / Leonid Nikolaevich Rabichev - famous artist, prose writer, poet, during the war he served as a signal officer in the 31st Army, operating on Central, 3 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian fronts. Memoirs, letters from L.N. Rabichev recreate episodes from the life of the front and rear, army life of a long time ago. What kind of training did the officers of the Red Army undergo, how they lived, loved, what they dreamed of, what they wore and what they ate. Every little detail of that era becomes a necessary link for understanding the enormous price that was paid for our victory. The young lieutenant saw both his Motherland burned and desecrated by the invaders, and Germany conquered. He let people's suffering pass through his warm heart. This is a courageous, bitter and sometimes shocking book by a man who went through the most terrible trials, but did not lose the ability to believe, love and create..