The first truthful novel about the celebrated battle at the Dubosekovo railway siding, where the fighters of Panfilov’s division stopped German tanks at the cost of their own lives.
“Great Russia, and there’s nowhere to retreat—behind us is Moscow!” These words of the political officer Klochkov became legend. About the Panfilov heroes, all the newspapers of the USSR wrote. Their feat raised generations of Soviet people.
But in recent years it turned out that the picture of the legendary battle of November 16, 1941 was incomplete—and that, in truth, everything was far more terrible and tragic than military correspondents could tell…
This novel restores the authentic story of the feat not only of the 28 Panfilov men, but of the entire 316th division, which was at the very point of the main strike of the Wehrmacht and, despite enormous losses, did not let the enemy through to Moscow. This book is a tribute from the earth to the Soviet Soldier who stood his ground where resisting was beyond human strength!