This book is about soldiers: from private to marshal. Moments of life and death, moments of achievement. The collection contains recordings of conversations between Konstantin Simonov and G. K. and .. C. Isakov, A. M. Vasilevsky, documentary and artistic works about the heroes of the civil war M. N. Tukhachevsky, V. G. Klementyev, the legendary general of the Smolensk battle M. F. Lukine, winged Marshal A. E. Golovanov, General and . In. Tulenev, a number of other heroes of the Great Patriotic War . Many works of the collection are dedicated to the defenders of the Motherland, who distinguished themselves in the post-war years, from the sailors of the battleship Novorossiysk, who fulfilled their duty to the end, to the heroes of Chernobyl and the soldiers-internationalists .. For a wide range of readers.