This book is included in the “golden fund” of Russian science fiction.
This is a classic of the genre “alternate history.”
This is the first large-scale attempt to rewrite the beginning of the Patriotic War by canceling the 1941 catastrophe—“turning the pointer of history,” rewriting the bloody draft of Soviet history from scratch. So, the “blitzkrieg” didn’t work. On June 22, 1941, the Red Army was expecting an attack, and the German tank wedges got stuck in well-prepared defenses. Exhausting the Wehrmacht in protracted defensive battles, Soviet troops withdrew in an organized manner to the old border, where they stopped the enemy…