Batalist. The territory of the Communications. Perev-Reverte A.

The former military photographer, having moved from the world, sits in the tower and writes Fresco - his most important, absolute, final work, complete pain, blood and war. The current military television journalist and its operator in the Balkans are punished by an explosion of the bridge. The photographer comes to the photographer whose life flew down due to a single photo camera-in the middle of careful talk about world art, masking grief, and thirsty for revenge, and love, despair, and shameful secrets, both have eyes. The bridge is still intact, but the explosion will happen now, and the journalists will remove it if they have time if they are alive in this territory of the commanders, where “instinct tells the military reporter that you need to slow down and turn back. Where? The roads are deserted, and houses turned into charred ruins; It seems that twilight is about to come. Where you do not see sniper rifles, but they see you. " “Batalist” and “Territory of the Communications”-two stories of Arturo Peres-Reverte, fictional and documentary, about the same thing: dirt, blood, fear and grief of the war in Bosnia and all other wars through the eyes of people whose work is to watch and show others What they saw.

Perevo-Reverte is a former military journalist who worked in many hot spots, the famous author of brilliant historical, military, adventure novels translated into forty languages, the creator of the Captain Diego Alatrist, the owner of the prestigious literary awards. He has something to tell about the war - he was there, and more than once. “At any war,” he says, “the same thing happens: somewhere the unfortunate, half-dead people in military uniforms of different formations shoot at each other, sitting in the trenches, smeared with clay, and some freak in a cozy office With the air conditioning, smoking a cigar, far from the front line is developing the design of banners, the creation of national hymns and the installation of monuments to an unknown soldier, thus earnings on all this blood and shit. ” In the war it is impossible to be a romantic. In the war it is impossible to be objective. In the war, it is impossible not to understand that there should be no war. “Batalist” and “Territory of the Communities” are equipped with extensive comments.

"The territory of the Communications" is published in an updated translation.