Cursed and killed. Astafyev V.P.

The epic novel “Cursed and killed” by the outstanding Russian writer Viktor Astafyev is the Great Patriotic War, seen by the eyes of a simple soldier-one of hundreds of thousands, in inhuman conditions of daily fighting with death. Here is the process of preparing replenishment, and the life of soldiers and officers, and their relationships, and the actual fighting. According to the author, any war is condemned by fratricide, and the system and people standing behind such crimes are cursed by God forever.