Roman K. M. Simonova "The Living and the Dead" - one of the most famous works about the Great Patriotic War . Neither Sintsov nor Mishka, who had already managed to get over the Dnieper bridge and, in turn, was now thinking about Sintsov, both did not imagine what would happen to them in a day. The bear, upset at the thought that he had left a comrade on the front line, and he himself was returning to Moscow, did not know that in a day Sintsov would not be killed, wounded, or scratched, but alive and healthy, only mortally tired, would sleep without memory at the bottom of this trench. And Sintsov, who was jealous that Mishka would be in Moscow to talk to Masha in a day, did not know that in a day Mishka would not be in Moscow and would not talk to Masha, because he was mortally wounded in the morning, under the Chauss, by a machine-gun queue from a German motorcycle .. This queue in several places will break it big, Strong body , and he , Gathering the Last Forces , It will be on the road and ,. Bleeding out , will light up the film with pictures of German tanks , with a tired Carpenter , He was forced to wear a helmet and a machine gun. with bravely drunk Horyshev , with Serpilin , Sintsov and sad chief of staff . And then, obeying the last unconscious desire, he will be weakened with thick fingers to tear into scraps of letters that these people sent with him to their wives. And scraps of these letters will first lull the earth next to the bleeding, dying Mishkin body, and then break away and, driven by the wind, turn over on the fly, rush along a dusty highway under the wheels of German trucks, under the caterpillars crawling to the east of German tanks....