My Lieutenant

8 hrs. 56 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Daniil Granin

Narrator Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Description

A real triumph for the talent of writer Daniil Granin is his novel about the Great Patriotic War viewed from the “back side,” not from the perspective of generals and marshals who calmly sent entire armies into the meat grinder—but from within, from trenches and dugouts.
Against the backdrop of the hardships, horrors, and ugliness of war, the author gives a chance for a simple lieutenant—one of those to whom we owe our victory—to speak out. Those whose deaths official bulletins of the Information Bureau reported as “minor losses in local battles.” Those who probably never chose such a fate for themselves, if given their own will.
This novel is in no way autobiographical, although it’s not difficult to understand who the author of the book and lieutenant D. are to each other. Nevertheless, within its pages two different people live each their own life: one is young, impulsive, defiant, romantic; the other is wise, knowing the value of life and having learned to stand up to circumstances. And each of them has his own truth.