People are in war. 2nd edition. Budnitsky O.V.

Very often in books about the war, people seem to be faceless statists in the battle of powers and leaders. In fact, behind each big event there are decisions and actions of specific personalities, their feelings and beliefs. The book of the famous specialist in the history of World War II Oleg Budnitsky closely shows people, the totality of the efforts of which led to victory over Nazism. The author with the same interest applies to the famous historical figures (Winston Churchill, “Blocade Madonna” by Olga Bergholz), and to the less famous, but no less heroic characters of the military era. Among them is Lieutenant Colonel Leonid Vinokur, who burst into the headquarters of Field Marshal Paulus to demand his surrender; Young mortar Vladimir Gelfand, whose only friend in the war was the diary; A graduate of the Pedagogical Institute, George Slavgorodsky, who dreamed of a writer's field, but became a military man, and many others.

Oleg Budnitsky - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Director of the International Center for History and Sociology of the Second World War and its consequences to the Higher School of Economics, author of numerous studies on the history of the 20th century.