About the book: 2023 / Inexplicable paranormal phenomena, mysterious incidents witnessed by our soldiers during the Great Patriotic War - retold by the incomparable short story writer Alexander Bushkov! Western Ukraine, 1944. The small town of Kosachi had just been liberated from the Nazis. The senior officer of the SMERSH operational search group, Captain Sergei Chuguntsov, was entrusted with carrying out Operation Teacher. The main target of the counterintelligence agents was object 371/C, an Abwehr intelligence school for local boys, where they taught espionage and sabotage. The fact is that the Germans, retreating, took out all the cadets, but they didn’t have time to save the archive and hid it somewhere nearby. For the first time in the entire war, SMERSH had a chance to get the archive of the Abwehr intelligence school! A local abandoned Polish castle was taken into development. They posted a sentry next to him. And then, late at night, a shot was fired near the castle. The Smershevites who arrived at the scene saw the corpse of a completely naked man and a shocked sentry. The fighter claimed that at night he was attacked by a pack of wolves, but when he shot at the leader, the predators instantly disappeared, and instead of them a bleeding man was left lying on the ground... The author of the book, when when he was still a child, he often listened to the stories of his father, Alexander Bushkov Sr., a participant in the Great Patriotic War, and the boy’s imagination carried him into strange, unexplored worlds filled with miracles, sorcerers and all sorts of devilry, and much of what he heard that delighted and surprised me to the extreme, and then easily became the basis for his books from the “Unknown” series».