Viktor Egorov is a regular GRU special forces officer. Dropped into 1941, he began doing what he knew how to do—destroy the enemy. Along the way, he trained a whole litter of young “wolf cubs”—boys and girls released from fascist captivity. What yesterday’s Soviet schoolchildren could do, armed with pistols with suppressors, homemade mines, and knowledge from the twenty-first century, they showed in raids by the detachment in the autumn of ’41 and the summer of ’42. But in ’43, Egorov’s students will have to pass a real exam—now everything is grown-up: the avengers of wrath and grief go onto the road against those “gans” and “fritzes” who dare to stand in their way.