About the book: 1972 / This book tells about workers and peasant guys, the same age as the Great October Revolution. The events of their personal and public life coincide with the biography of our country. The book is strictly documentary. And it is attractive precisely because of the reliability of facts and events. During the harsh years of military trials, the author of the story, Yevgeny Petrov, was a front-line journalist. The book tells about the generation that survived and won the war, about the fate of many of its heroes..