We, Brother, Are from the Infantry

“War is hell. And infantry are the hells of hells. Because you’re always going to be shot at. First you go!” Such books are said to be written in blood. You won’t read them in any novel, you won’t see them in a film. This is the real “trench truth” of the Great Patriotic War—so frank, so confessional, so piercingly real that only veterans can tell it…

Yet World War II is called the “war of engines.” Despite all the success of tanks and aviation, the main role on the battlefield continued to belong to the “queen of fields”—the infantry. It was they who bore the main burden of the war on their shoulders. It was infantry who accounted for the lion’s share of losses. It was infantrymen who raised the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag. You will hear their living voices in this book.