Summer of 1915. The Germans besiege the fortress of Osovets for 200 days, but despite the hurricane of artillery fire, our garrison repels all attacks. And then the German command decides to use combat gases. The enemy is sure that poisoned chlorine will make the Russians stop resisting. But when German regiments move for the final assault—toward them, from the poisonous cloud, rise Russian ranks. Choking from мучительного кашля and running with blood, half-blind from chemical burns, the doomed Russian soldiers go into bayonets, turning the Germans into a panicked retreat!..
Read the first novel-epic about the legendary “ATTACK OF THE DEAD MEN” and the heroic defense of the fortress of Osovets, comparable to the feats of Sevastopol and the Brest Fortress.