This book is about the feeling of an impending war—and about how those forebodings suddenly begin to come true. About how Russian guys think, watch, and one day try weapons “just to see.” Serbia, Iran, Tajikistan, Ossetia, Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, Chechnya… The guys travel to “hot spots,” see everything with their own eyes, join the “Interbrigades,” and rush toward Donbas. They describe what they know better than many. The authors have been through many twists of the late twentieth century and the first wars of the twenty-first. Get acquainted. We’ll all have to meet them again more than once.