Battalions are asking for fire. Bondarev Yu.V.

The publication dedicated to the “Year of Lieutenant's Prose”, declared by the Association of Unions of Writers and Publishers of Russia (Aspire).

Yuri Vasilievich Bondarev (1924-2020)-a famous Russian writer, screenwriter and public figure who fought During the Great Patriotic War near Stalingrad and taking part in the liberation of Kyiv and Zhytomyr.

the events of his story “Battalions ask for fire” unfolded in Ukraine in 1943. Two battalions were given an order to take a bridgehead when crossing the Dnieper and give an artillery signal for further offensive.

However, the subsequent order of the command already read “to stay to death with its firing means”...

Honest, truthful and uncompromising narrative about the fate of ordinary soldiers who gave their lives in the name of the Great Victory. < /p>