Lead line. Oleg Ryabov

“War, in the full sense of the word, before my eyes... In the very first days I was a witness to the death of two infantry regiments with their commanders. War is a terrible thing... especially for infantry. I live on the NP regiment and saw the assault, and now I contemplate the field covered with gray overcoats. For a long time they will still lie! ”

This book is a trench novel. But it differs from the “Lieutenant Stories”, created by writers in a home, peaceful environment, years after the end of the war. This book is written in the trenches. The author used the letters of his father who came from the front, literally processed them, added fatherly oral stories. This is a chronicle of the whole war, a true look from the trench.