About the book: year / One of the most famous books in the world about the Great Patriotic War. It was first published in England in 1964, then in the USA, France, Germany and other countries. By all accounts, it “opened the eyes” of Western readers to the true events that took place on the Eastern Front and in Russia. Correspondent for the British newspaper The Sunday Times and the BBC radio company Alexander Werth (1901 - 1969) knew Russian well language and was in the USSR from July 1941 to 1946, and then, based on his own impressions, documents and other primary sources, he wrote this, in his words, “human history.” “I did everything in my power to tell the West about the war efforts of the Soviet people,” Werth noted. The author honestly and frankly talks about the Great Patriotic War with portraits, sketches, and everyday details. He was not an outside observer, he was worried about our country and the people living in it... The publishing layout of the book was saved in PDF A4 format.