About the book: 1987 / The name of Dmitry Mikhailovich Holendro, the author of numerous stories and short stories, is well known to Soviet and foreign readers. The first volume includes works about the Great Patriotic War, the roads of which gunner junior sergeant Dmitry Holendro, later a front-line correspondent for an army newspaper, traversed. These are the stories “Apples of the Year 1941” (on which the film of the same name was based), “Cannon”, “Floats” and the stories “Evening of Love”, “Behind the Feat”, etc. All of them are dedicated to the courage of the Soviet soldier, who shielded all of Europe with his chest from German fascism, which every day during the war solved the problem of choosing between the right to live and the duty to sacrifice one’s life for the sake of saving the Motherland.