War is the hardest and most terrible word of all known to mankind. It’s good when a child doesn’t know what airstrike is, how an automaton sounds, why people hide in bomb shelters. However, Soviet people are faced with this terrible concept and know about it firsthand. And not surprisingly, many books, songs, poems and stories have been written about this. In this article we want to talk about what works about the Great Patriotic War are still read by the whole world.
"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 didn’t 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 at the front there is no age, gender and status. All this does not matter, because each 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 all costs.
In the book, the main narrator is Vaskov, the commandant of the trip. This man saw with his own eyes all the horrors that are happening during the war. The worst thing in this work is its truthfulness, its honesty.
"17 moments of Spring"
There are various books about the Great Patriotic War, but the work of Julian Semenov is one of the most popular. The protagonist is the Soviet intelligence officer Isaev, working under the fictitious surname Shtirlits. It is he who exposes an attempt to conspire with the American military-industrial complex with the leaders of fascist Germany.
This is a very controversial and complex work. It interweaves documentary data and human relationships. The prototypes of the characters are real people. Based on Semenov’s novel, the series was shot, which for a long time was at the peak of popularity. However, in the film, the characters are easy to understand, they are unambiguous and simple. In the book, everything is much more confusing and interesting.
"Vasily Terkin"
This poem was written by Alexander Twardowski. A person who is looking for beautiful poems about the Great Patriotic War should first of all turn his attention to this work. It is a real encyclopedia telling about how a simple Soviet soldier lived at the front. There is no pathos, the main character is not embellished - he is a simple man, a Russian person. Vasily sincerely loves his Motherland, treats troubles and difficulties with humor, and can find a way out of the most difficult situation.
Many critics believe that these very poems about the Great Patriotic War, written by Twardowski, helped maintain the morale of ordinary soldiers in 1941-1945. Indeed, in Terkin, everyone saw something of their own, dear. It is easy to recognize a person with whom he worked together, a neighbor with whom he went out to smoke on the landing, a comrade who was lying in the trench with you.
Twardowski showed the war as it is, without embellishing reality. Many consider his work a peculiar military chronicle.
"Hot Snow"
The book of Yuri Bondarev at first glance describes local events. There are such works about the Great Patriotic War that describe a single, specific event. So here - only one day is told that the battery of Drozdovsky 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 and young boys can love their homeland. After all, it is young people who unshakably believe in orders from 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, a battery that almost froze under the snow is found. The wounded are sent to the rear, heroes are solemnly awarded. But, despite the happy ending, they remind us that the boys continue to fight there, and there are thousands of them.
"Not listed"
Every schoolboy read books about the Great Patriotic War, but not everyone knows this work of Boris Vasiliev about a simple 19-year-old guy Nikolai Pluzhnikov. The main character after a military school receives an appointment and becomes a platoon commander. He will serve in the Special Western District. At the beginning of the 41st, many were sure that the war would begin, but Nikolai did not believe that Germany would dare to attack the USSR. The guy gets into the Brest Fortress, and the next day the Nazis attack her. From this day the Great Patriotic War began.
It is here that the young lieutenant receives the most valuable life lessons. Nicholas now knows what a small mistake can cost, how to properly assess the situation and what actions to take, how to distinguish sincerity from betrayal.
"The Story of a Real Man"
There are various works dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, but only Boris Polevoy’s book has such an amazing fate. In the Soviet Union and in Russia, it has been reprinted more than a hundred times. This book was translated into more than one hundred and fifty languages. Its relevance is not lost in peacetime. The book teaches us to be courageous, to help anyone who is 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 about courage and great love of life. In the main character, the pilot Aleksey Maresyev, many who lost relatives in the war recognized their loved ones: sons, husbands, brothers. Until now, this work is rightfully considered legendary.
"The fate of man"
You can recall different stories about the Great Patriotic War, but the work of Mikhail Sholokhov is familiar to almost everyone. It was based on a real story that the author heard in 1946. She was told to him by a man and a boy whom he accidentally met at the crossing.
The main character of this story was called Andrei Sokolov. Having gone to the front, he left his wife, and three children, and an excellent job, and his home. Once on the front line, the man behaved very dignified, always fulfilling the most difficult tasks and helped his comrades. However, the war does not spare anyone, even the most daring. Andrei’s house burns down, and all his relatives die. The only thing that kept him in this world was little Vanya, whom the protagonist decides to adopt.
"Blockade book"
The authors of this book are Daniil Granin (now an honorary citizen of St. Petersburg) and Ales Adamovich (writer from Belarus). This work can be called a collection, which contains stories about the Great Patriotic War. It contains not only diary entries from people who survived the siege in Leningrad, but unique, rare photographs. To date, 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 of St. Petersburg. Granin noted that this work is not a story of human fears, it is a story of real exploits.
"Young guard"
There are works about the Great Patriotic War that are simply impossible not to read. Roman Alexander Fadeev 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, she acted in the city of Krasnodon.
We 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 time were not afraid to arrange sabotage and prepared for an armed uprising, tears are in my eyes. The youngest member of the organization was only 14 years old, and almost all of them died at the hands of the Nazis.
The author did not change the names of the most famous representatives of the organization. After all, we all know about Oleg Koshev, Ulyana Gromova and other children who died as heroes.