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The Great Patriotic War in literature: the best works about the heroic deed of the Soviet people

The Great Patriotic War in literature was widely covered, especially in the Soviet era, as many authors shared personal experiences and themselves experienced all the described horrors along with ordinary soldiers. Therefore it is not surprising that at first the military, and then the post-war years were marked by the writing of a number of works dedicated to the heroic deed of the Soviet people in the fierce struggle against Nazi Germany. Bypassing these books one can not pass by and forget about them, for they make us think about life and death, war and peace, past and present. We offer you a list of the best books devoted to the Great Patriotic War, which are worth reading and rereading.

Vasil Bykov

Vasil Bykov (the books are presented below) is an outstanding Soviet writer, public figure and participant of the Second World War. Probably one of the most famous authors of military novels. Bykov wrote mainly about the moral choice of a man during the most severe trials that fall to his lot, and the heroism of ordinary soldiers. Vasil Vladimirovich sang in his works the feat of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. Below we will consider the most famous novels of this author: "Sotnikov", "Obelisk" and "Survive until Dawn".

Sotnikov

The story was written in 1968. This is another example of how the Great Patriotic War was described in fiction. Initially, the name was called "Liquidation", and the plot was based on the author's meeting with a former brother-in-law, whom he considered dead. In 1976, based on this book, the film "Ascent" was made.

The story tells of a partisan detachment, which badly needs provisions and medicines. With the supplies sent Fisher and intellectual Sotnikov, who is sick, but is called to go, as more volunteers were not found. Long walks and searches lead partisans to the village of Lyasina, here they rest a little and receive a carcass of sheep. Now you can go back. But on the way back they stumble on a detachment of policemen. Sotnikov is seriously wounded. Now the fisherman must save his comrade's life and bring the promised provisions to the camp. However, he does not succeed, and the two of them fall into the hands of the Germans.

"Obelisk"

Vasil Bykov wrote a lot of works about the war . Books of the writer are very often filmed. One of these books was the story "Obelisk". The work is based on the type of "story in the story" and has a clearly expressed heroic character.

The hero of the story, whose name remains unknown, comes to the funeral of Pavel Miklashevich, a village teacher. At the funeral, everyone remembered the deceased with a kind word, but here we are talking about Frost, and everyone is silent. On the way home, the hero asks his fellow traveler what kind of attitude some Moroz has to Miklashevich. Then they tell him that Frost was the teacher of the deceased. He treated children as his own, took care of them, and Miklashevich, oppressed by his father, took to live with himself. When the war began, Moroz helped the partisans. The village was occupied by the police. One day his students, including Miklashevich, sawed the supports of the bridge, and the police chief, along with his assistants, was in the water. The boys were caught. Frost, who had fled to the partisans by that time, surrendered to free the disciples. But the fascists decided to hang up both children and their teachers. Before the execution, Moroz helped Miklashevich escape. The rest were hanged.

"Live until dawn"

The Tale of 1972. As you can see, the Great Patriotic War in literature continues to be relevant even after decades. This is confirmed by the fact that for this story Bykov was awarded the State Prize of the USSR. The work tells about the daily life of military intelligence officers and saboteurs. Initially, the story was written in Belarusian, and only then translated into Russian.

November 1941, the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Lieutenant of the Soviet Army Igor Ivanovsky, the protagonist of the story, commands a sabotage group. He is to spend his comrades behind the front line - on the lands of Belarus, occupied by the German invaders. Their task is to blow up the German ammunition depot. Bykov talks about the exploit of ordinary soldiers. It was they, and not the staff officers, that became the force that helped win the war.

In 1975 the book was filmed. The script for the film was written by Bykov himself.

"And dawns here are quiet ..."

The work of the Soviet and Russian writer Boris Lvovich Vasilyev. One of the most famous front-line stories is largely due to the eponymous adaptation of 1972. "And the dawns are quiet here ..." Boris Vasiliev wrote in 1969. The work is based on real events: during the war, soldiers serving on the Kirov Railway prevented German saboteurs from blowing up the railway track. In surviving after the brutal battle, only the commander of the Soviet group was left, who was awarded the Medal for Military Merit.

"And the dawns here are quiet ..." (Boris Vasiliev) - a book describing the 171st travel in the Karelian wilderness. Here is the calculation of anti-aircraft installations. Soldiers, not knowing what to do, begin to drink and laze. Then Fedor Vaskov, the commandant of the trip, asks "to send the non-drinkers." The command sends two detachments of anti-aircraft gunners to him. And somehow one of the newcomers notices in the forest of German saboteurs.

Vaska realizes that the Germans want to get to the strategic facilities and understand that they need to be intercepted here. To do this, he assembles a detachment of 5 anti-aircraft gunners and leads them to the Sinyukhin Ridge through the swamps to him alone by a trail. During the campaign it turns out that the Germans are 16 people, so he sends one of the reinforcements for reinforcements, and he pursues the enemy. However, the girl does not reach her own and dies in the swamps. Vaskov has to join the Germans in an unequal battle, and as a result, the remaining four girls die with him. But still the commandant manages to seize the enemies, and he takes them to the location of the Soviet troops.

The story describes the feat of a man who himself makes a decision to confront the enemy and not allow him to walk with impunity on his native land. Without the orders of the authorities, the main character himself goes into battle and takes with him 5 volunteers - the girls volunteered themselves.

"There was a war tomorrow"

The book is a kind of biography of the author of this work, Boris Lvovich Vasilyev. The story begins with the fact that the writer tells about his childhood, that he was born in Smolensk, his father was the commander of the Red Army. And before becoming in this life at least someone, choose his profession and determine the place in society, Vasiliev became a soldier, like many of his peers.

"Tomorrow was a war" - a work about the prewar period. His main characters are still young students of the 9th grade, the book tells about their growing up, love and friendship, idealistic youth, which turned out to be too short because of the war. The work tells about the first serious confrontation and choice, about the collapse of hopes, about the inevitable maturation. And all this against the backdrop of a looming, painful threat that can not be stopped or avoided. And in a year these boys and girls will be in the heat of a brutal battle, in which many of them are destined to burn. However, in their short life they will learn what honor, duty, friendship and truth are.

"Hot Snow"

The novel of writer-front-line soldier Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev. The Great Patriotic War in the literature of this writer is represented especially widely and became the main motive of all his work. But the most famous work Bondarev is exactly the novel "Hot Snow", written in 1970. The action takes place in December 1942 near Stalingrad. A novel is based on real events - the attempt of the German army to unblock the sixth army of Paulus, surrounded by Stalingrad. This battle was decisive in the battle for Stalingrad. The book was filmed by G. Yeghiazarov.

The novel begins with the fact that two artillery platoons under the command of Davlatyan and Kuznetsov will have to gain a foothold on the Myshkov River, and then restrain the offensive of German tanks hurrying to the rescue of Paulus' army.

After the first wave of offensive from Lieutenant Kuznetsov's platoon, there remains one gun and three fighters. Nevertheless, soldiers continue to reflect the onslaught of enemies during the day.

"The fate of man"

"The fate of a man" is a school work that is studied within the framework of the theme "The Great Patriotic War in Literature". The story was written by the famous Soviet writer Mikhail Sholokhov in 1957.

The work describes the life of a simple driver Andrei Sokolov, who had to leave his family and home with the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. However, the hero did not manage to get to the front, as he immediately gets wounded and finds himself in Nazi captivity, and then in a concentration camp. Thanks to his courage, Sokolov manages to survive captivity, and already at the end of the war manages to escape. Once he gets to his people, he gets a vacation and goes to his native land, where he learns that his family was dead, only the son who went to war remained alive. Andrew returns to the front and learns that his son was shot by a sniper on the last day of the war. However, this is not the end of the hero's story, Sholokhov shows that, even after losing everything, one can find new hope and gain strength in order to live on.

"Brest Fortress"

The book of the famous Soviet writer and journalist Sergei Smirnov was written in 1954. For this work the author was awarded in 1964 with the Lenin Prize. And this is not surprising, because the book is the result of Smirnov's ten-year work on the history of the defense of the Brest Fortress.

The work "Brest Fortress" (Sergey Smirnov) is a part of history itself. Write literally bit by bit collected information about the defenders, wishing that their good names and honor were not forgotten. Many of the heroes were captured, for which after the war they were convicted. And Smirnov wanted to protect them. The book contains a lot of memories and testimonies of the participants in the battles, which fills the book with true tragedy, full of courageous and decisive actions.

"Living and dead"

The Great Patriotic War in the literature of the 20th century describes the life of ordinary people who, by the will of fate, turned out to be heroes and traitors. This cruel time of many grinded, and only units managed to slip between the millstones of history.

"Living and dead" - the first book of the famous trilogy of the same name, Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov. The second two parts of the epic are called "Soldiers are not born" and "Last Summer". The first part of the trilogy was published in 1959.

Many critics consider the work one of the brightest and most talented examples of the description of the Great Patriotic War in the literature of the 20th century. In this novel-epic is not a historiographic work or a chronicle of war. The characters of the book are fictional people, although they possess certain prototypes.

"The war is not a woman's face"

Literature devoted to the Great Patriotic War, usually describes the exploits of men, sometimes forgetting that women contributed to the overall victory. But the book of the Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksievich, one might say, restores historical justice. The writer collected in her work stories of those women who took part in the Great Patriotic War. The title of the book was the first lines of the novel "The War under the Roofs" by A. Adamovich.

For the first time the book was published in 1983, but at that time many chapters were crossed out by censorship. And only two years later the readers were able to familiarize themselves with the work in full.

"The list does not appear"

Another story, the theme of which was the Great Patriotic War. In Soviet literature, Boris Vasiliev, which we mentioned above, was fairly well known. But he got fame just because of his military work, one of which is the story "The lists do not appear".

The book was written in 1974. Its action takes place at the very beginning of the Second World War in the Brest Fortress, besieged by the fascist invaders. Lieutenant Nikolai Pluzhnikov, the protagonist of the work, gets to this fortress before the beginning of the war - he arrived on the night of June 21-22. And at dawn the battle begins. Nikolai has the opportunity to leave here, since his name is not on any military list, but he decides to stay and defend his homeland until the end.

"Babi Yar"

Documentary novel "Babi Yar" Anatoly Kuznetsov published in 1965. The work is based on the childhood memories of the author, who during the war found himself in the territory occupied by the Germans.

The novel begins with a small author's foreword, a brief introductory chapter and several chapters, which are combined into three parts. The first part tells about the withdrawal from Kiev of the retreating Soviet troops, the collapse of the South-Western Front and the beginning of the occupation. Also included were scenes of execution of Jews, explosions of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and Khreshchatyk.

The second part is fully devoted to the occupation life of 1941-1943, the hijackings of Russians and Ukrainians as workers in Germany, of hunger, of underground production, of Ukrainian nationalists. The final part of the novel tells about the liberation of the Ukrainian land from the German invaders, the flight of the Polizei, the battle for the city, the uprising in the concentration camp of Babi Yar.

"A Tale of a Real Man"

Literature on the Great Patriotic War includes the work of another Russian writer who passed the war as a military journalist, Boris Polevoy. The story was written in 1946, that is almost immediately after the end of hostilities.

At the heart of the story is an event from the life of the USSR military pilot Alexei Meresyev. His prototype was a real character, the hero of the Soviet Union Alexei Maresiev, who, like his hero, was a pilot. The story tells of how he was shot down in battle with the Germans and seriously wounded. As a result of the accident, he lost both legs. However, his strength of will was so great that he managed to return to the ranks of Soviet pilots.

The work was awarded the Stalin Prize. The story is imbued with humanistic and patriotic ideas.

"The Madonna with rations bread"

Maria Glushko is a Crimean Soviet writer who went to the front at the beginning of the Second World War. Her book "The Madonna with rations bread" - about the feat of all mothers, to whose share it was to survive the Great Patriotic War. The heroine of the work is a very young girl Nina, whose husband goes to war, and she at the insistence of her father goes to evacuation to Tashkent, where her stepmother and brother are waiting for her. The heroine is on the last days of pregnancy, but this will not protect her from the flood of human misfortunes. And for a short time, Nina will have to learn what she had previously been hidden behind the well-being and peace of pre-war existence: people live so differently in the country, what their life principles, values, attitudes, how they differ from it, grew up in Ignorance and prosperity. But the main thing that the heroine has to do is to give birth to a child and save him from all the scourge of war.

Vasily Terkin

Such characters as heroes of the Great Patriotic War, literature painted the reader in different ways, but the most memorable, cheerful and charismatic was undoubtedly Vasily Terkin.

This poem by Alexander Tvardovsky, which began to be published in 1942, immediately received national love and recognition. The work was written and published throughout the Second World War, the last part was published in 1945. The main task of the poem was to support the morale of the soldiers, and Tvardovsky successfully managed to accomplish this task, largely thanks to the image of the main character. Strong and cheerful, Terkin, who is always ready for battle, won the hearts of many ordinary soldiers. He is the soul of the unit, a merry fellow and a joker, and in battle - an example for imitation, resourceful and always achieving his goal warrior. Even being a hair's breadth from death, he continues to fight and already comes into conflict with the very death.

The work includes a prologue, 30 chapters of the main content, divided into three parts, and an epilogue. Each chapter represents a small front-line story from the life of the main character.

Thus, we see that the exploits of the Great Patriotic War literature of the Soviet period was widely covered. We can say that this is one of the main themes of the middle and second half of the 20th century for Russian and Soviet writers. This is due to the fact that the whole country was involved in the battle with the German invaders. Even those who were not at the front, worked tirelessly in the rear, providing soldiers with ammunition and provisions.

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