In the heart of the war. Karpov A.N.

The war found eight -year -old Vitya Osokin in his native Mtsensk. The fascists entered the city, the occupation began. The first to die Viti's mother. Following one after another, the younger sisters died. Fierce in winter, the Germans drove people out into the street, and their houses were dismantled to logs for dugouts. Vitya and his grandmother survived a dashing time from strangers.

soon our troops liberated the city. Father Viti, Politor of the Red Army, returns. Seeing what the Nazis had done in his homeland, he takes his son with him to the army. Vitya becomes the "son of the battalion." The fascists who have experienced the atrocities of the fascists, the guy knows for sure why he should take revenge on the enemy...