Pillbox. Part 2
4 hrs. 11 min.
A revised and significantly expanded version of the novella "The Legend of the Small Garrison."
"Pillbox" is perhaps the most paradoxical book about war. Without yielding in excitement to famous adventure novels, it shows how people, fighting people—on both sides—remain human. How light and love survive in them—in spite of everything! For they do not yet know that Hell has come to earth.
On the 69th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, on June 22, OLMA Media Group publishes on its website the full version of Igor Akimov’s novel "PILLBOX." This is one of the most powerful works ever published in Russia about the first months of the bloody battle between the USSR and Germany.
The first version of "PILLBOX" was published in the magazine "Podvig" under the title "The Legend of the Small Garrison" and, without exaggeration, became a literary bestseller of the 1970s, going through print runs of hundreds of thousands. Several years ago, based on the novella, the film "Stronger Than Fire" was made, starring the well-known actors Nikita Zverev and Tatyana Arntgolts.
The editorial censorship of the 1970s removed many episodes from the manuscript, so the author himself considered the first version incomplete and wanted to return to "PILLBOX," recreate the lost fragments, and generally rewrite the work in accordance with the experience of years lived, modern knowledge of the Great Patriotic War, and the literary language of today. This is how the new "PILLBOX" came about, which OLMA Media Group now presents.
Captivity—escape—pillbox—the clash of a small detachment of Soviet border guards with an entire German army, the intellectual and human confrontation between Sergeant Yegorov and Major Ortner... This is a book about the courage, resourcefulness, and mutual assistance of young, spirited soldiers and officers on both sides of the front, about patriotism that comes from the very heart. And also about how much they want to live and survive in the meat grinder of the most terrible war in all human history.
"Pillbox" is perhaps the most paradoxical book about war. Without yielding in excitement to famous adventure novels, it shows how people, fighting people—on both sides—remain human. How light and love survive in them—in spite of everything! For they do not yet know that Hell has come to earth.
On the 69th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, on June 22, OLMA Media Group publishes on its website the full version of Igor Akimov’s novel "PILLBOX." This is one of the most powerful works ever published in Russia about the first months of the bloody battle between the USSR and Germany.
The first version of "PILLBOX" was published in the magazine "Podvig" under the title "The Legend of the Small Garrison" and, without exaggeration, became a literary bestseller of the 1970s, going through print runs of hundreds of thousands. Several years ago, based on the novella, the film "Stronger Than Fire" was made, starring the well-known actors Nikita Zverev and Tatyana Arntgolts.
The editorial censorship of the 1970s removed many episodes from the manuscript, so the author himself considered the first version incomplete and wanted to return to "PILLBOX," recreate the lost fragments, and generally rewrite the work in accordance with the experience of years lived, modern knowledge of the Great Patriotic War, and the literary language of today. This is how the new "PILLBOX" came about, which OLMA Media Group now presents.
Captivity—escape—pillbox—the clash of a small detachment of Soviet border guards with an entire German army, the intellectual and human confrontation between Sergeant Yegorov and Major Ortner... This is a book about the courage, resourcefulness, and mutual assistance of young, spirited soldiers and officers on both sides of the front, about patriotism that comes from the very heart. And also about how much they want to live and survive in the meat grinder of the most terrible war in all human history.
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