Battalions Request Fire. Hot Snow

Yury V. Bondarev (1924) is a well-known Russian writer who fought during the war years near Stalingrad, in Poland, and on the border with Czechoslovakia. In the novella "Battalions Ask for Fire" and the novel "Hot Snow," the Great Patriotic War is shown through the eyes of a Russian soldier—bare truth about the war. In the novella, the author raises the question of what means victory was achieved by. Is it possible to sacrifice the lives of individuals for the sake of a common goal? Is it possible to justify such sacrifices? Based on the novella "Battalions Ask for Fire," an eponymous TV series was made.

In the novel "Hot Snow," the author tells about the Stalingrad events—one of the decisive moments of the Great Patriotic War—so the lives and deaths of the novel’s heroes take on special weight and significance. Death is understood as a violation of the highest justice and harmony.