The well-known reader’s books “We Call Down Fire on Ourselves,” “Swan Song,” “Falling Rain,” and “Maxim—The Line Is Down” — the writer Ovidiy Gorchakov remains faithful to the central theme of his work in his new book: again focusing on heroic Soviet intelligence officers and their combat work on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War.
The attention of the writer is on military unit 9903, made famous by Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Lelya Kolesova, Vera Voloshina, Boris Krainov, Konstantin Zaslonov, Grigory Linkov, and many others.
Among the ranks of this unit began his difficult combat career as a scout and even O. Gorchakov himself—who went through the enemy’s rear from the Desna to the Oder—in the Bryansk region and Smolensk region, in Belarus and in Western Ukraine, in Poland and in the “imperial province of Warteland”—in Germany.