About the book: 1967 / From the preface: ...In the center of the work is the detachment of Captain Trofimov. Having escaped from encirclement with a group of fighters in the fall of 1941, Trofimov, together with the secretary of the district committee, Glushov, created a large partisan formation. A common danger and hatred of the enemy gathered purely civilian people in a deep forest - the teacher Vladimir Skvortsov, who miraculously escaped execution, and the peasant woman Pavel Lopukhova, who lost her three-year-old son Vasyatka in a village burned by the Nazis, and Glushov’s daughter Vera, who was raised without a mother, a wayward and romantic…