Spring of the Earth. Baklanov G.Ya.

In the novel “The Pods of the Earth”, the events unfold on a small bridgehead on the right bank of the Dniester, where the artilleryman Motovilov with two ordinary people conduct reconnaissance in order to establish the location of the German mortar battery. In total, a small piece of land, and on it their own life, and living people, and their problems.

In the novel “July 41”, the writer was one of the first to call among the reasons for the defeat at the beginning of the war the destruction of the Officer Corps of the Red Army Stalin.