About the book: 2015 / GOTENLAND - this is how the German occupiers renamed Crimea, declaring it “German heritage” and intending to include it in the Reich. But for our soldiers, Crimea and Sevastopol from time immemorial were not just points on the map, but much more - a symbol of Russian military glory, a shrine, the Motherland... This large-scale epic is the first novel about the Sevastopol March of 1942, allowing you to see the Crimean tragedy not only through the eyes of our soldiers and the sailors who stood here to the death, but also from the other side of the front - through the sights of German riflemen and the viewfinder of an Italian war correspondent. This book is about the price our great-grandfathers paid so that the Island of Russian Glory remained Russian