Konstantin Vorobyov’s novellas can be called the first great truth about war that has broken through to us through literature. Vorobyov’s war novellas are written in the tradition of the great Russian prose of the 19th century, and with their terrible, unvarnished truth they turn the soul inside out.
The autobiographical novella "It’s Us, Lord" was written in 1943, when a group of partisans formed from former prisoners of war was forced to go underground temporarily.