When the guns rattled / Writer and author of the preface Nikolai Andreevich Vnukov; Drawings T. Xenophon . — L. : Children's literature, 1973. — 255 s. , with IL. — Format 60x90/16. Circulation 75,000 copies. Price 60 k. In this book you will read about the military feat .. Not only on the front, but also in the rear heroic deeds . were committed. Not only adults, but also your peers were heroes . You will learn about the courageous defenders of Leningrad, about the feat of the political coach Pidmichev, who received an appointment to the front and rushed to the unit, but on the way boldly entered into an unequal battle with the Nazis. You will meet a writer who worked in besieged Leningrad, and learn about the leprosy of a boy who deftly avenged his humiliation to a German officer. Read about the girl-machine gunner who became the commander of the machine-gun company, and how after the war the search for unknown heroes was conducted. And with many other interesting people you will meet on the pages of this collection .. And when you close the book you have already read, remember that in the name of your happiness and freedom, more than twenty million Soviet people died in the past war, among them were those you learned about.