A brand-new military science-fiction action novel by the author of the bestselling cycle “We Are from Brest.” Our contemporary—a combat officer—once again changes the history of the Great Patriotic War. Winter of 1942/1943. The troops of Kleist’s 1st Panzer Army surge toward Grozny, Nalchik, and Vladikavkaz. But they’re in for an unpleasant surprise. Units of the Brest Assault Brigade are landed in the enemy rear once again, to deprive the Hitlerites of the last chances to seize the Caucasus. From the Caucasus mountains begins the long journey of the brigade to the West—toward our Victory…