Literary works about the war 1941 1945. Works about the Great Patriotic War
I know it's not my fault
That others
did not come from the war,
That they are who is older,
who is younger
Stayed there, and it's not about the same thing,
that I could
but failed to save
It's not about that, but still,
nevertheless, nevertheless...
Alexander Tvardovsky
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Salute, pioneer![Text] / Fig. V. Yudina. - Moscow: Malysh, 1985. - 118 p. : ill.
In those days, boys and girls, your peers, grew up early: they did not play war, they lived according to its harsh laws. The greatest love for one's people and the greatest hatred for the enemy called the pioneers of the fiery forties to defend the Motherland.
Collection of stories about the exploits of the Soviet people during the war and in peacetime.
The story of a military childhood near the front. The terrible and heroic events that the author and his brother had to see and experience, their unusual fate formed the basis of this book.
This book contains two stories - about the exploits of young heroes during the Great Patriotic War.
You will no doubt fall in love with the brave boy Alyosha from the Bryansk village, who knocked out a fascist armored train from a cannon. You will read with excitement about the fate of another boy, also Alyosha, a Leningrad pioneer who overcame both hunger and cold during the terrible years of the blockade. Overcame death itself.
About the Battle of Stalingrad, its heroes, about those who fought against the fascist invaders for the city on the Volga and defeated the enemy, is described in this book.
In this book, you will meet a remarkable pioneer - the hero Lenya Golikov, who accomplished an outstanding feat. His name entered the history of the Great Patriotic War in the glorious ranks of the Heroes of the Soviet Union.
About the labor feat of boys and girls who, in the terrible years of the Great Patriotic War, having put aside school textbooks and unfinished books, stood together with their fathers and older brothers at the machines in the workshops of military factories. "Everything for the front, everything for victory!" - with such words our rear worked. The book tells about the fate of the Leningrad boy Grisha Efremov, who was orphaned at the very beginning of the war.
The gates of Novorossiysk are always open for those who come to us in peace and friendship. And for those who come with weapons in their hands, the Novorossiysk gates are closed.
This happened during the Great Patriotic War, when the Soviet people fought against the Nazi invaders.
Military-patriotic in its sound, the book tells about the fate of circus performers (a girl and her parents) during the Great Patriotic War.
This book was written by a poet - Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Georgievich Krasnov.
Stories about the difficult military childhood of a rural boy, about how he had to work to help his family, about his friends - comrades and how he met Victory Day at a small stop called Strizhata.
This book reproduces some episodes of the heroic defense of Leningrad, tells about the unprecedented feat of Leningraders.
This book is about the war, about the time when courageously and staunchly fought for the Motherland against fascism. It is important and necessary for you to know the heroic past of your country, the exploits of your grandfather and great-grandfather. Know how it was.
The writer Ilya Lvovich Mikson himself walked the path of the war and experienced much of what he talks about in his books.
Stories about the war: "Dugout", "A bag of oatmeal", "Rocket shells".
The book included stories that the writer considered an encyclopedia of military life.
Stories about the Great Patriotic War.
The book includes stories about the heroic deed of children during the Great Patriotic War.
Ballad about the hero of the Great Patriotic War.
A book from the series "Grandfather's Medals", telling about the medal "For the Defense of Odessa
The book of the famous children's writer includes fairy tales, stories of patriotic content: “How Seryozha went to war”, “Seven soldiers”, “Invisible cap”, “Ivan-willis”, “Foundling”, “Let the old soldier stand” and others.
Works for students in grades 5-6 (6+)
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Tales about the Great Patriotic War by famous Soviet writers: M. Sholokhov, V. Bykov, V. Bogomolov, G. Semenov and others.
Collection of military-patriotic stories for children of middle and senior school age.
This collection consists of four sections: "Sudden Encounter", "In the Battles for the Motherland", "Victory" and "Peace on Earth", which includes widely known works dedicated to the feat of our people in the Great Patriotic War.
The collection includes three stories about the war, united by one theme - childhood scorched by war.
The war took away relatives and friends from Vanya Solntsev, the hero of V. Kataev's story "The Son of the Regiment". About how surprisingly the fate of Vanya, the son of the regiment, was described in it.
The orphaned city girl Valentinka was taken into her family by a collective farmer, who tried to replace her dead mother - about this, the story of JI. Voronkova "Girl from the city".
The hero of V. Bogomolov's story "Ivan" is a twelve-year-old boy who survived the horrors of the concentration camp and became a partisan intelligence officer.
The author, a well-known children's writer, a participant in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), tells younger students about its main battles: six books in the series describe the feat of our people in liberating their native country of Europe from fascist invaders. The sixth book in the series is dedicated to the capture of Berlin and the victory over fascism (1945).
The story takes the reader during the Great Patriotic War to the Pskov region. Its heroes are village guys who actively helped the partisans in their fight against the invaders. The author speaks of the great spiritual sensitivity of children and adults, their mutual care and understanding.
A book of stories about the main battles of the Great Patriotic War: the defense of Moscow, the Battles of Stalingrad and Kursk, the battles for the Caucasus and Sevastopol, the breaking of the blockade of Leningrad, the liberation of the entire territory of our country from the enemy and the final victory of the Soviet Army over the Nazis.
The author, a well-known children's writer, a participant in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), tells younger students about its main battles: six books in the series describe the feat of our people in the liberation of their native country and Europe from fascist invaders. The third book in the series is dedicated to the heroes of Sevastopol (1941-1943) and the Caucasus (1942-1944).
The author, a well-known children's writer, a participant in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), tells younger students about its main battles: six books in the series describe the feat of our people in the liberation of their native country and Europe from fascist invaders. The fifth book in the series is dedicated to the victory at Kursk (1943) and the expulsion of the Nazis from the Soviet lands (1943-1944).
The author, a well-known children's writer, a participant in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), tells younger students about its main battles: six books in the series describe the feat of our people in the liberation of their native country and Europe from fascist invaders. The fourth book in the series is dedicated to the siege of Leningrad (1941-1944).
The collection includes stories about the most significant battles of World War II. These are the Moscow battle, the battle for Stalingrad, the defense of Sevastopol, the blockade of Leningrad and the battle for Berlin.
The author, a well-known children's writer, a participant in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), tells younger students about its main battles: six books in the series describe the feat of our people in the liberation of their native country and Europe from fascist invaders. The second book in the series is dedicated to the Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943).
A tragic and true story about a brave scout boy who sacrifices himself every day, consciously performing an adult service that not every adult soldier can do.
The book tells about the village childhood during the Great Patriotic War. Against the background of an ordinary and sometimes difficult life, the beauty of a person’s soul, his love for work, for his land is revealed.
The story is dedicated to the Georgian village during the Great Patriotic War, its courageous and kind people, village teenagers who learn the poetry of first love.
The story of a boy who was orphaned during the Great Patriotic War and became the son of a regiment.
The children of L. T. Kosmodemyanskaya died in the fight against fascism, defending the freedom and independence of their people. She talks about them in her story. According to the book, you can follow the life of Zoya and Shura Kosmodemyansky day by day, find out their interests, thoughts, dreams.
This is a story about the wanderings of two Stalingrad girls during the war. It is about courage and cowardice, about disinterestedness and greed - always exciting problems of the formation of characters.
In this story, the author raises the problems of the formation of character and moral education of a teenager. The little hero of this work has to quickly learn a lot of sad names that the war brought with it.
The book includes three stories: "The Beloved Aids Store", "Kikimora", "The Last Cold". They continue the cycle of works about military childhood, tell about the life of an ordinary boy in the rear in a terrible war time. In the stories, the writer conducts a deeper study of the child's character, and the life of the people who managed to keep children's childhood in that harsh time.
A cycle of stories about children living in a small Far Eastern village during the Great Patriotic War, about the early courage of the growing up of a child's soul.
The story of the heroine of the Great Patriotic War, the young partisan Lara Mikheenko.
“The girl used to have a mother and grandmother, now her family is a partisan detachment. And the scouts' hut, where in the evenings smokes a smoke lamp filled with lamb fat, is now a girl's house ...
In this house, you need to forget the childish capricious words: “I don’t want to!”, “I won’t!”, “I can’t!”. Here they know one harsh word: "Necessary." Needed for the Motherland. To defeat the enemy."
The action of the second book of V. Oseeva's story unfolds during the Great Patriotic War.
This book tells about how the pioneers who found themselves in fascist occupation lived, how courageously they helped adults and difficult times for our country.
This story contains real events and almost all real names. The author Alexei Yakovlevich Ochkin describes the military deeds of his friend, "brother" Vanya Fedorov, who died a hero's death in Stalingrad.
The Tale of the Leningrad Children of Wartime. About life in lockdown
city, about courage and perseverance.
The book of a famous writer tells about a little girl who accomplished a feat helping our sailors during the Great Patriotic War.
There were still battles when Soviet soldiers found and rescued children among the ruins and rescued children - unwitting witnesses of the historical Battle of Stalingrad.
"The Fate of a Man" is a story about a simple man in a big war. At the cost of losing loved ones, comrades, with his courage, heroism, he gave the right to life and freedom to the Motherland. In the image of Andrei Sokolov, the features of the Russian national character are concentrated.
The magazine includes: the story "Judgment Day" by Viktor Kozko, the stories "Orlyk" by Valentin Osipov, "Borya is small and others" by Viktor Potanin.
Books for students in grades 7-9. (12+)
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The collection includes works by famous writers dedicated to
Great Patriotic War.
Collection of poems about the Great Patriotic War. The authors experienced it as teenagers, children, or know about it from their elders. But with what force the memory of these years resounds in the poems! This is truly a relay race of generations, expressed in poetic form. The book includes poems by: V. Sokolov, N. Rubtsov, S. Kunyaev, A. Peredreev, V. Tsibin, A. Zhigulin, E. Evtushenko, A. Voznesensky, R. Rozhdestvensky, R. Kazakova, O. Dmitriev and others .
The collection includes well-known works by front-line poets such as K. Simonov, Yu. Drunina, S. Naronchatov, A. Surkov, A. Tvardovsky and others, as well as poems about the WAR by poets of the post-war generation - V. Sokolova, Yu Kuznetsov, A Prasolov, G. Gorbovsky and others.
A collection of the best poems by Soviet poets, dedicated to the heroic deeds of the Soviet Army and Navy at the final stage of the war, the battles for the liberation of European countries from Fascism.
The collection introduces readers to the work of young poets who died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War.
The collection includes works by Russian Soviet writers about the Great Patriotic War - stories and novels by A. N. Tolstoy, M. Sholokhov, L. Leonov, B. Gorbaty, P. Pavlenko.
A well-known novel about the events of the Great Patriotic War - about three days, the famous Battle of Kursk. His heroes, young and wise by experience, although they are part of the battalion defending the village, deeply understand the significance of military events, the entire course of the war as a whole.
The writer tells about the youth of his generation, about those who went through the ordeal of the Great Patriotic War.
Four short stories, united by the same heroes, about the past terrible days of the Great Patriotic War.
A widely known story about the Great Patriotic War.
Documentary story of the Hero of the Soviet Union I. M. Bovkun. commander of the partisan unit "For the Motherland!"
Bogomolov V. M. Thirteen years before immortality: A Tale / V. M. Bogomolov. - Volgograd: Nizhne - Volga book publishing house, 1975. - 208 p.: ill.
The story tells about the life and heroic death of the partisan pioneer Misha Romanov, reveals the origins of the great love for the Motherland, the willingness to give life for its freedom and independence.
The novel, created on the basis of factual material, tells about the detectives of the Soviet military counterintelligence.
The book includes two stories: "Alpine Ballad" - about the international struggle against fascism and "To go and not return" - about the heroism of partisans in the occupied territory of Belarus during the Great Patriotic War.
Two well-known stories of the writer tell about the courage and heroism of the Belarusian partisans in the fight against the fascist invaders.
The book of front-line writer Boris Vasiliev included the stories “The Dawns Here Are Quiet...” (1969) about the tragedy and heroism of the Great Patriotic War and “Tomorrow there was a war” (1984) about social and moral problems.
A novel about the people and events of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, about the defenders of the Brest Fortress.
The first story, which gave the name to the book, is about tenth-graders who volunteered for the front, about their first battle near the village of Elkhotovo.
The second story - "Sverre" calls for help" tells about one of the covert operations of the Nazis in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
The book of the outstanding master of prose K. Vorobyov includes his well-known stories about the war "Killed near Moscow" and "The Scream", as well as the unfinished story "It's us, Lord! ..." about the horrors of fascist captivity, written on autobiographical material.
The book includes stories about 14-16 year old boys who became cabin boys of the Baltic fleet during the war years.
The cycle of stories is dedicated to pioneer partisans, heroes of the Great Patriotic War.
The story "Unbowed" (1943) - one of the best works of the Soviet writer Boris Gorbatov - about the courageous struggle of the Soviet people against the Nazi invaders. The story "Alexey Kulikov, a fighter" (1942) is also about the Great Patriotic War, about soldiers, heroic defenders of the Motherland.
The documentary story tells about the military affairs of young heroes who fought against the Nazis in 1942.
The events described in this short documentary story took place in the Cossack farm Verbovka, which stands at the mouth of a steppe river with the poetic name Donskaya Tsaritsa. The heroes of this story are ten or fourteen-year-old teenagers, Cossacks from collective farm families.
Their names and surnames are not fictitious. They lived, fought in their own way against the Nazi invaders who trampled Soviet soil. They didn't blow up trains, they didn't blow up ammunition depots. But those small feats that the guys performed every day served a great cause - the expulsion of the enemy from Soviet soil.
A story about childhood, scorched by the war, about the courage of the character of a teenager who, together with adults, passed all the trials of the fighting Stalingrad. The author brings his story to the days when the children of those boys of the forties are already taking the first life test for the right to be a Human.
The story of the outstanding Soviet commander Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov.
Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev - a participant in the Battle of Stalingrad, a noble sniper, organizer of the sniper movement in the 62nd Army. Hero of the Soviet Union.
In his notes, he talks about the school of martial arts and reveals to readers the "secrets" of sniper art.
The book tells about the feat of the young defenders of the Motherland, partisan scouts, who obtained important information in the camp of the fascist invaders.
A lyrical story about the cruel everyday life of the war, the hard and selfless service of army scouts.
. The author of this book, Vladimir Vasilyevich Karpov, was an officer during the Great Patriotic War and served in intelligence. The main theme of the writer's work is the life of the modern Soviet Army. The book "Marshal's Baton", offered to the young reader, is also devoted to this topic.
The book includes two famous works. The story "My Dear Boys" is dedicated to the memory of A.P. Gaidar and tells about the life of children in a small Volga town during the Great Patriotic War. The autobiographical story "Konduit and Schwambrandia" depicts the birth and the first years of the Soviet labor school.
Two stories about a girl whose childhood falls on the tragic pre-war and early war years, and people who help the heroine in difficult circumstances.
The author, a former pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, tells in this book about her generation, who went to the front from school.
The first story is dedicated to the pre-war life of heroes who were passionate about aviation, the courage and heroism they showed during the war years.
The main characters of the second story are young female pilots of the women's aviation regiment of night bombers.
During the Great Patriotic War, fate threw two Russian boys - Vitya and Kostya - to distant Tajikistan. But the boys were not left in trouble. Remarkable Soviet people extended a helping hand to them. Warmed by their care, the boys grew up and matured, learned to defend their homeland.
The book includes two stories about the war "Sashka" and "Wounded Leave", the main character of which is a young soldier, yesterday's schoolboy who assumed the entire burden of responsibility for the fate of the Motherland. (7-9 cells)
A lyrical story about the high moral qualities of the Soviet people. The author is a writer from Volgograd, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. And her book is about a warrior.
From the memoirs of a radio operator-intelligence officer about military adventures during the Great Patriotic War; about how she, a naive schoolgirl, became an experienced and dexterous reconnaissance fighter who performed difficult command tasks.
The book includes four stories about the war, the authors of which are united by close attention to the inner world of a young soldier, yesterday's schoolboy, who assumed the entire burden of responsibility for the fate of the Motherland.
Former artilleryman poet Alexander Nikolaev spoke about a Polish girl who saved him from death during the Great Patriotic War.
Already after the publication of the book, the author managed to find his savior, a former prisoner of the Nazi death camp, Marta Beglo, and many other Polish comrades. New exciting pages of the story are devoted to this.
The story about the pupils of the Jung School, created during the war years on the Solovetsky Islands.
1942 During an air battle, the plane of a Soviet fighter pilot crashes in the middle of a protected forest. Having lost both legs, the pilot does not give up, and a year later he fights on a modern fighter.
A participant in the Great Patriotic War, the author, on a documentary basis, recreates the military operations of military intelligence officers, talks about their courage, courage and ingenuity.
This collection by A. Pristavkin includes the story "A golden cloud spent the night" and stories written in different years. But they are all united by one common theme - the theme of war. This is a harsh and difficult childhood, these are people who saved a whole generation from a military fire. These are the author's thoughts about the early maturation of the young, about friendship and camaraderie, about love for their native land.
Notes of a partisan about the life of an orphanage in the occupation, about the struggle of Belarusian partisans against the Nazis.
An adventure story about the struggle of Soviet partisans and employees of the USSR state security organons with the German-fascist troops and special services during the Great Patriotic War on the territory of the USSR temporarily occupied by the enemy.
The story "The Unknown Soldier" tells about the already grown-up Krosh, who, working on the construction of a new road, discovers the grave of an unknown soldier and sets out to establish his name.
A book about the legendary defense of the Brest Fortress was published (1941).
This book is the result of many years of activity of the writer S. S. Smirnov (1915-1976), who decided to recreate the incredible feat of people, which for a long time remained completely unknown. The heroism in the battle of the defenders of the fortress was continued by the writer's courageous desire to tell an honest, dramatic truth.
The Tale of Young Divers in the Northern Fleet during the Great Patriotic War.
Widely known stories about military sailors - defenders of the Motherland, about their courage, friendship and mutual assistance in battle.
Two stories about the modern army, about how young people, yesterday's schoolchildren, mature while serving, about the continuity of military traditions, about the memory of the past.
The Great Patriotic War is an event that affected the fate of all of Russia. Everyone has touched it in one way or another. Artists, musicians, writers and poets also did not remain indifferent to the fate of their country.
The role of literature during the Second World War
Literature has become something that gave hope to people, gave strength to fight on and go to the end. This is precisely the purpose of this art form.
From the first days of the front, writers spoke about the responsibility for the fate of Russia, about the suffering and deprivation that people endured. Many writers went to the front as correspondents. At the same time, one thing was indisputable - unhindered faith in victory, which nothing could break.
We hear the call to eradicate the "cursed beast that has risen above Europe and swung at your future" in the verses-appeals "To arms, patriot!" P. Komarova, "Listen, Fatherland", "Beat the enemy!" V. Inber I. Avramenko, in L. Leonov's essays "Glory to Russia".
Features of literature during the war
The war made us think not only about real problems, but also about the history of Russia. It was at this time that the works of A. Tolstoy “Motherland”, “Peter the Great”, the story “Ivan the Terrible”, as well as “The Great Sovereign”, a play by V. Solovyov, appeared.
There was such a thing as a work written "In hot pursuit." That is, a poem, essay or story written just yesterday evening could appear in print today. Publicism played an important role, because thanks to it, an opportunity was seen to hurt the patriotic feelings of the Russian people. As A. Tolstoy said, literature has become "the voice of the Russian people."
War poems received the same attention as ordinary political or secular news. The press regularly published excerpts from the work of Soviet poets.
Creativity of writers during the Second World War
A. Tvardovsky's work has become an indisputable contribution to the common collection. Of course, the most famous of his works - the poem "Vasily Terkin" became a kind of illustration of the life of a simple Russian soldier. She deeply revealed the characteristic features of the Soviet warrior, for which she became dearly loved by the people.
In "The Ballad of a Comrade" the poet wrote: "Your own misfortune does not count." This line clearly reveals to us those patriotic impulses, thanks to which people did not give up. They were ready to endure a lot. The main thing is to know that they are fighting for victory. And even if its price is too high. At a meeting of Soviet writers, a promise was made "to give all my experience and talent, all my blood, if necessary, to the cause of the holy people's war against the enemies of our Motherland." More than half of them openly went to the front to fight the enemy. Many of them, including A. Gaidar, E. Petrov, Yu. Krymov, M. Jalil, never returned.
Many works of Soviet writers were published in the main newspaper of the USSR at that time - "Red Star". The works of V. V. Vishnevsky, K. M. Simonov, A. P. Platonov, V. S. Grossman were published there.
During the war, the work of K.M. Simonov. These are the poems “Forties”, “If your house is dear to you”, “By the fire”, “Death of a friend”, “We will not see you”. Some time after World War II, Konstantin Mikhailovich's first novel, Comrades in Arms, was written. He saw the light in 1952.
Post-war literature
Many works about the Second World War began to be written later, in the 1960s and 70s. This applies to the stories of V. Bykov (“Obelisk”, “Sotnikov”), B. Vasiliev (“The dawns here are like that”, “I was not on the lists”, “Tomorrow there was a war”).
The second example is M. Sholokhov. He will write such impressive works as "The Fate of a Man", "They Fought for the Motherland." True, the last novel is never considered complete. Mikhail Sholokhov began writing it back in the war years, but returned to the completion of the plan only 20 years later. But in the end, the last chapters of the novel were burned by the writer.
The biography of the legendary pilot Alexei Maresyev became the basis of the famous book "The Tale of a Real Man" by B. Polevoy. Reading it, one cannot help but admire the heroism of ordinary people.
One of the classic examples of works about the Great Patriotic War can be considered Y. Bondarev's novel "Hot Snow". It was written 30 years later, but it well illustrates the terrible events of 1942 that took place near Stalingrad. Despite the fact that there are only three soldiers left, and only one gun, the soldiers continue to hold back the German offensive and fight to the bitter end.
About the price of victory, which our people paid with the lives of their best sons and daughters, about the price of peace that the earth breathes, you think today, reading bitter and such profound works of Soviet literature.
War is the heaviest and most terrible word of all known to mankind. How good it is when a child does not know what an airstrike is, how a machine gun sounds, why people hide in bomb shelters. However, Soviet people have come across this terrible concept and know about it firsthand. And it is not surprising that many books, songs, poems and stories have been written about it. In this article we want to talk about what works the whole world is still reading.
"And the dawns here are quiet"
The author of this book is Boris Vasiliev. The main characters are anti-aircraft gunners. Five young girls themselves decided to go to the front. At first they did not even know how to shoot, but in the end they accomplished a real feat. It is such works about the Great Patriotic War that remind us that there is no age, gender or status at the front. All this does not matter, because every person moves forward only because he is aware of his duty to the Motherland. Each of the girls understood that the enemy must be stopped at any cost.
In the book, the main narrator is Vaskov, the commandant of the patrol. This man saw with his own eyes all the horrors that happen during the war. The worst thing about this work is its truthfulness, its honesty.
"17 moments of Spring"
There are different books about the Great Patriotic War, but the work of Yulian Semenov is one of the most popular. The protagonist is the Soviet intelligence officer Isaev, who works under the fictitious surname Stirlitz. It is he who exposes the attempted collusion of the American military-industrial complex with the leaders
This is a very ambiguous and complex work. It intertwines documentary data and human relationships. The characters are based on real people. Based on the novel by Semenov, a series was filmed, which for a long time was at the peak of popularity. However, in the film, the characters are easy to understand, unambiguous and simple. In the book, everything is much more confusing and interesting.
"Vasily Terkin"
This poem was written by Alexander Tvardovsky. A person who is looking for beautiful poems about the Great Patriotic War should first of all turn their attention to this particular work. It is a real encyclopedia that tells about how a simple Soviet soldier lived at the front. There is no pathos here, the main character is not embellished - he is a simple man, a Russian man. Vasily sincerely loves his Fatherland, treats troubles and difficulties with humor, and can find a way out of the most difficult situation.
Many critics believe that it was these poems about the Great Patriotic War written by Tvardovsky that helped to maintain the morale of ordinary soldiers in 1941-1945. Indeed, in Terkin, everyone saw something of their own, dear. It is easy to recognize in him the person with whom he worked together, the neighbor with whom he went out to smoke on the landing, the comrade-in-arms who lay with you in the trench.
Tvardovsky showed the war for what it is, without embellishing reality. His work is considered by many to be a kind of military chronicle.
"Hot Snow"
The book at first glance describes local events. There are such works about the Great Patriotic War that describe a single, specific event. So it is here - it tells only about one day that Drozdovsky's battery survived. It was her fighters who knocked out the tanks of the Nazis, who were approaching Stalingrad.
This novel tells about how yesterday's schoolchildren, young boys can love their Motherland. After all, it is young people who unshakably believe in the orders of their superiors. Perhaps that is why the legendary battery was able to withstand enemy fire.
In the book, the theme of war is intertwined with life stories, fear and death are combined with goodbyes and frank confessions. At the end of the work, the battery, which is practically frozen under the snow, is found. The wounded are sent to the rear, the heroes are solemnly awarded. But, despite the happy ending, we are reminded that the boys continue to fight there, and there are thousands of them.
"Not listed"
Every schoolchild read books about the Great Patriotic War, but not everyone knows this work by Boris Vasilyev about a simple 19-year-old guy Nikolai Pluzhnikov. The protagonist after the military school receives an appointment and becomes a platoon commander. He will serve in the Special Western District. At the beginning of 1941, many were sure that the war would begin, but Nikolai did not believe that Germany would dare to attack the USSR. The guy ends up in the Brest Fortress, and the next day it is attacked by the Nazis. From that day the Great Patriotic War began.
It is here that the young lieutenant receives the most valuable life lessons. Nikolai now knows what a small mistake can cost, how to correctly assess the situation and what actions to take, how to distinguish sincerity from betrayal.
"A Tale of a Real Man"
There are various works dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, but only the book of Boris Polevoy has such an amazing fate. In the Soviet Union and in Russia, it was reprinted more than a hundred times. This book has been translated into more than one hundred and fifty languages. Its relevance is not lost even in peacetime. The book teaches us to be courageous, to help any person who finds himself in a difficult situation.
After the story was published, the author began to receive letters that were sent to him from all the cities of the then huge state. People thanked him for the work, which spoke of courage and great love for life. In the main character, pilot Alexei Maresyev, many who lost their relatives in the war recognized their loved ones: sons, husbands, brothers. Until now, this work is rightfully considered legendary.
"Destiny of Man"
You can recall different stories about the Great Patriotic War, but the work of Mikhail Sholokhov is familiar to almost everyone. It is based on a real story that the author heard in 1946. It was told to him by a man and a boy, whom he accidentally met at the crossing.
The main character of this story was named Andrey Sokolov. He, having gone to the front, left his wife and three children, and an excellent job, and his home. Once on the front line, the man behaved very dignified, always carried out the most difficult assignments and helped his comrades. However, the war does not spare anyone, even the most courageous. Andrei's house burns down, and all his relatives die. The only thing that kept him in this world was little Vanya, whom the main character decides to adopt.
"Blockade book"
The authors of this book were (now an honorary citizen of St. Petersburg) and Ales Adamovich (a writer from Belarus). This work can be called a collection of stories about the Great Patriotic War. It contains not only entries from the diaries of people who survived the blockade in Leningrad, but also unique, rare photographs. Today, this work has acquired a real cult status.
The book was reprinted many times and even promised that it would be available in all libraries in St. Petersburg. Granin noted that this work is not a story of human fears, it is a story of real feats.
"Young guard"
There are works about the Great Patriotic War that are simply impossible not to read. The novel describes real events, but this is not the main thing. The title of the work is the name of an underground youth organization whose heroism is simply impossible to appreciate. During the war years, it operated on the territory of the city of Krasnodon.
You can talk a lot about the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, but when you read about boys and girls who, in the most difficult times, were not afraid to arrange sabotage and prepared for an armed uprising, tears stand in their eyes. The youngest member of the organization was only 14 years old, and almost all of them died at the hands of the Nazis.
These books are about the exploits of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, about death, love and hope, about grief and joy, about the desire to live and self-sacrifice for the sake of others - in a word, about what this war was like and what it had to pay for.
Valentin Rasputin. "Live and Remember"
The action of the story takes place in 1945, in the last months of the war, when Andrei Guskov returns to his native village after being wounded and hospitalized - but it so happened that he returns as a deserter. Andrei simply did not want to die, he fought a lot and saw a lot of deaths. Only Nasten's wife knows about his act, she is now forced to hide her fugitive husband even from her relatives. She visits him from time to time at his hideout and it is soon revealed that she is pregnant. Now she is doomed to shame and torment - in the eyes of the whole village she will become a walking, unfaithful wife. Meanwhile, rumors are spreading that Guskov did not die or go missing, but is hiding, and they are starting to look for him. Rasputin's story about serious spiritual metamorphoses, about the moral and philosophical problems facing the heroes, was first published in 1974.
Boris Vasiliev. "Not listed"
The time of action is the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the place is the Brest Fortress besieged by the German invaders. Along with other Soviet soldiers, there is also Nikolai Pluzhnikov, a 19-year-old new lieutenant, a graduate of a military school, who was assigned to command a platoon. He arrived on the evening of June 21, and in the morning the war begins. Nicholas, who did not have time to be included in the military lists, has every right to leave the fortress and take his bride away from trouble, but he remains to fulfill his civic duty. The fortress, bleeding, losing lives, heroically held out until the spring of 1942, and Pluzhnikov became its last warrior-defender, whose heroism amazed his enemies. The story is dedicated to the memory of all unknown and nameless soldiers.
Vasily Grossman. "Life and Destiny"
The manuscript of the epic was completed by Grossman in 1959, was immediately recognized as anti-Soviet because of the harsh criticism of Stalinism and totalitarianism, and was confiscated in 1961 by the KGB. In our homeland, the book was published only in 1988, and even then with abbreviations. In the center of the novel is the Battle of Stalingrad and the Shaposhnikov family, as well as the fate of their relatives and friends. There are many characters in the novel whose lives are somehow connected with each other. These are the fighters who are directly involved in the battle, and ordinary people who are not at all ready for the troubles of war. All of them manifest themselves in different ways in the conditions of war. The novel turned a lot in the mass ideas about the war and the sacrifices that the people had to make in an effort to win. This is, if you will, a revelation. It is large-scale in scope of events, large-scale in freedom and courage of thought, in true patriotism.
Konstantin Simonov. "Alive and Dead"
The trilogy ("The Living and the Dead", "No Soldiers Are Born", "The Last Summer") chronologically covers the period from the beginning of the war to July 44, and in general - the people's path to the Great Victory. In his epic, Simonov describes the events of the war as if he sees them through the eyes of his main characters Serpilin and Sintsov. The first part of the novel almost completely corresponds to Simonov's personal diary (he served as a war correspondent throughout the war), published under the title "100 Days of War". The second part of the trilogy describes the period of preparation and the Battle of Stalingrad itself - the turning point of the Great Patriotic War. The third part is devoted to our offensive on the Belorussian front. The war tests the heroes of the novel for humanity, honesty and courage. Several generations of readers, including the most biased of them - those who went through the war themselves, recognize this work as a truly unique work, comparable to the high examples of Russian classical literature.
Mikhail Sholokhov. "They fought for their country"
The writer worked on the novel from 1942 to 1969. The first chapters were written in Kazakhstan, where Sholokhov came from the front to the evacuated family. The theme of the novel is incredibly tragic in itself - the retreat of Soviet troops on the Don in the summer of 1942. Responsibility to the party and the people, as it was then understood, could induce to smooth out sharp corners, but Mikhail Sholokhov, as a great writer, openly wrote about insoluble problems, about fatal mistakes, about chaos in front-line deployment, about the absence of a “strong hand” capable of to clean up. The retreating military units, passing through the Cossack villages, felt, of course, not cordiality. It was not at all understanding and mercy that fell to their lot on the part of the inhabitants, but indignation, contempt and anger. And Sholokhov, dragging an ordinary person through the hell of war, showed how his character crystallizes in the process of testing. Shortly before his death, Sholokhov burned the manuscript of the novel, and only separate pieces were published. Is there a connection between this fact and the strange version that Andrei Platonov helped Sholokhov write this work at the very beginning - it doesn’t even matter. It is important that there is another great book in Russian literature.
Viktor Astafiev. "Cursed and Killed"
Astafiev worked on this novel in two books (“Devil's Pit” and “Bridgehead”) from 1990 to 1995, but never finished it. The name of the work, which covers two episodes from the Great Patriotic War: the training of recruits near Berdsk and the crossing of the Dnieper and the battle to hold the bridgehead, was given by a line from one of the Old Believer texts - “it was written that everyone who sows confusion, wars and fratricide on earth, will be cursed and killed by God. Viktor Petrovich Astafiev, a man by no means of a courtly nature, in 1942 volunteered to go to the front. What he saw and experienced melted into deep reflections on the war as a "crime against the mind." The action of the novel begins in the reserve regiment's quarantine camp near the Berdsk station. There are recruits Leshka Shestakov, Kolya Ryndin, Ashot Vaskonyan, Petka Musikov and Lekha Buldakov ... they will face hunger and love and reprisals and ... most importantly, they will face a war.
Vladimir Bogomolov. "In August 44th"
The novel, published in 1974, is based on real documented events. Even if you have not read this book in any of the fifty languages \u200b\u200binto which it has been translated, then everyone must have watched the film with the actors Mironov, Baluev and Galkin. But the cinema, believe me, will not replace this polyphonic book, which gives a sharp drive, a sense of danger, a full platoon, and at the same time a sea of information about the "Soviet state and military machine" and about the everyday life of intelligence officers.
So, the summer of 1944. Belarus has already been liberated, but somewhere on its territory a group of spies goes on the air, transmitting strategic information to the enemies about Soviet troops preparing a grandiose offensive. A detachment of scouts led by a SMERSH officer was sent in search of spies and a direction-finding radio.
Bogomolov is a front-line soldier himself, so he was terribly meticulous in describing the details, and in particular, the work of counterintelligence (the Soviet reader learned a lot from him for the first time). Vladimir Osipovich simply harassed several directors who were trying to film this exciting novel, he “sawed” the then editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda for an inaccuracy in the article, proving that it was he who first spoke about the method of Macedonian shooting. He is an amazing writer, and his book, without the slightest loss of historicity and ideological content, has become a real blockbuster in the best possible way.
Anatoly Kuznetsov. "Babi Yar"
A documentary novel based on childhood memories. Kuznetsov was born in 1929 in Kyiv, and with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, his family did not have time to evacuate. And for two years, 1941 - 1943, he saw how the Soviet troops retreated destructively, then, already in occupation, he saw atrocities, nightmares (for example, sausage was made from human flesh) and mass executions in the Nazi concentration camp in Babi Yar. It is terrible to realize, but this “former in the occupation” stigma fell on his whole life. He brought the manuscript of his truthful, uncomfortable, terrible and poignant novel to the journal Yunost during the thaw, in 1965. But there frankness seemed excessive, and the book was redrawn, throwing out some pieces, so to speak, "anti-Soviet", and inserting ideologically verified ones. The very name of the novel Kuznetsov managed to defend by a miracle. Things got to the point that the writer began to fear arrest for anti-Soviet propaganda. Kuznetsov then simply put the sheets in glass jars and buried them in the forest near Tula
In all the stories of the Belarusian writer (and he mostly wrote stories), the action takes place during the war, in which he himself was a participant, and the focus of meaning is the moral choice of a person in a tragic situation. Fear, love, betrayal, sacrifice, nobility and meanness - all this is mixed in different heroes of Bykov. The story "Sotnikov" tells about two partisans who were captured by the police, and how, in the end, one of them, in complete spiritual baseness, hangs the second. Based on this story, Larisa Shepitko made the film "Ascent". In the story "The Dead Doesn't Hurt", a wounded lieutenant is sent to the rear, ordered to escort three captured Germans. Then they stumble upon a German tank unit, and in a skirmish, the lieutenant loses both prisoners and his companion, and he himself is wounded in the leg a second time. Nobody wants to believe his report about the Germans in the rear. In the Alpine Ballad, a Russian prisoner of war Ivan and an Italian Julia escaped from a Nazi concentration camp. Pursued by the Germans, exhausted by cold and hunger, Ivan and Julia grow closer. After the war, the Italian lady will write a letter to Ivan's fellow villagers, in which she will tell about the feat of their fellow countryman and about three days of their love.
The famous book written by Granin in collaboration with Adamovich is called the book of truth. The first time it was published in a magazine in Moscow, the book was published in Lenizdat only in 1984, although it was written back in 77. It was forbidden to publish the Blockade Book in Leningrad as long as the city was led by the first secretary of the regional committee, Romanov. Daniil Granin called the 900 days of the blockade "an epic of human suffering." On the pages of this amazing book, the memories and torments of exhausted people in the besieged city seem to come to life. It is based on the diaries of hundreds of blockade survivors, including the records of the deceased boy Yura Ryabinkin, the historian Knyazev and other people. The book contains blockade photographs and documents from the archives of the city and the Granin fund.
