Pound order, or hellish campaign. Upinsky Yu.A.

someday, with particular clarity, we will come to an understanding that there is a simple human proximity, a sacrifice for the sake of another and, in the end, mutual trust, which surpass the conventionality of any boundaries-rational and cultural.

The end of the Great Patriotic War, the journalist and editor of the army newspaper, together with his family, moves from Sakhalin to Arkhangelsk and meets Sakhalin friends there. He is interested in the recent past related to the Atlantic escort of the PQ-17, which was heading to Arkhangelsk, most of which was sunk by the Germans in the summer of 1942. Soon after the war, the relations of the former allies were rapidly cooled, and they began to represent the incident differently. The order of Admiral Pound, the first naval lord of Britain, about the disbandment of a military convoy seemed to the Soviet means of information untimely, which did not need. The writer, whom the Moscow editorial office seconded to Arkhangelsk to write a book in order to soften the conflict with the West that had emerged immediately after the war. At the same time, he should not apply for Soviet principles, which the competent authorities are closely observed.

in the novel, the second book of the Third Brother trilogy, the atmosphere of the first years after the war and rather the psychological, and not the military-political view On the course, causes and consequences of the PQ-17 tragedy described in the work of V. Pikul "Requiem of the Dead Caravan." The topic of finding the meaning of life, faith in God and the attitude to the church among the post -war Soviet generation and participants in the military tragedy deserves special attention.