Valentin Pikul. Pikul A.

Valentin Savvich Pikul considered himself a happy person: a thirteen -year -old boy extinguished the "lighters" in the blockade Leningrad - he did not die of hunger. A year later, I got into the Solovetskaya school of Jung; At fifteen, he was appointed commander of a combat post on the destroyer "Grozny". He went through the war - did not die. In the Northern Fleet, he became on his first fighting shifts, which he carried, but already at the desk, all his life, until he fell on the undercredited page of his main novel - “Stalingrad.”

as Pikul was a person, a person, a person The writer, friend, - his wife and ally warmly and confidentially say. Throughout their life together, she entered the most interesting events and observations in the diary, thanks to which you can now read how the largest novels of the last decade of the writer’s life were created. This biography of Valentina Pikul and valuable.