Cursed and killed. Astafiev V.

In 1942, Viktor Astafyev volunteered for eighteen -year -olds, Viktor Astafyev. He served on the forefront, suffered several severe wounds, was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Medal "For Courage", demobilized in 1945 with the rank of Private.

The war, seen by the eyes of a simple soldier - one of hundreds of thousands, in inhuman conditions of daily fighting with death - the central theme in the work of the outstanding Russian writer Viktor Astafiev. The novel “Cursed and killed” - the result of many years of thought and one of the most dramatic, tragic and truthful narratives about the war, as a “crime against the mind”. The writer’s piercing frankness, his uncompromising unwillingness to hide “inconvenient” facts and embellish the harsh truth, betraying his own memories and memory of the fallen, won the works of Astafyev the love of millions of readers.