Sotnikov

This collection included two masterpieces of military prose by Vasil Bykov - “Sotnikov” and “Obelisk”. "Sotnikov" is an amazing imagination in its almost documentary simplicity the story of the two partisans. This is a reasoning about heroism and betrayal, death and life, the story of courage, honor and fidelity to duty. The hero of the “obelisk”, a rural teacher Frost is “a man without leather” who is heatedly feeling any injustice and perceiving the troubles of his neighbors as his own. And it is precisely by this decency that the policemen decide to use when they take the children who have gone to the partisans of the teacher...