About the book: 1977 / This book by Viktor Telpugov opens with a trilogy consisting of the stories "Parachutists", "Everything in Place!" and “Wormwood in the Snow.” Depicting the fate of paratrooper Sergei Slobodkin, the main character of this work, the author writes about the generation that went down in history as the generation of the Great Patriotic War. At the beginning of the war, it was still very young, unfired, and had no experience of fighting an insidious and cruel enemy, but gradually matured, became tempered and strengthened in battle. The complex process of hardening and maturing character is truthfully revealed by the writer. In addition to the “Wormwood in the Snow” trilogy, the book includes a large section of stories also devoted to the theme of the feat of the Russian Soviet man, a topic that, despite the variety of creative interests of V. Telpugov, always remains the most important for him.