The Forest Guard

The thunder of derailed trains, blown-up bridges, and burned German convoys. War novels about unknown heroes of the partisan struggle. From a large group of prisoners who decided to escape from a German concentration camp, only one managed to break free. Finding himself in an unfamiliar forest in Polish territory, Lieutenant of the Red Army Alexander Kanunnikоv is ready again—at the risk of his life—to fight the fascists. But what can a half-alive prisoner do… Alexander decides to break through to his own—without yet knowing that right here, in the border region occupied by the Germans, a small resistance detachment is already operating. The forest guard is glad for reinforcements. But there’s nothing to fight with in the detachment, and almost no supplies. Kanunnikоv suggests that his new comrades attack the camp guards and take over weapons…

— “War has many faces. And the one who writes about it reliably has the face of Sergey Zverev. This author knows everything about combat operations. It seems he walked those harsh paths himself, just to tell about them without any embellishment…”

— Valeriy SHARAPOV, author of retro-detective stories