According to the latest data, the Great Patriotic War took the lives of more than twenty-six million people in the USSR. And how many more uncounted yet, nevertheless maimed fates of children—caught and deprived by this war? Children of war. As best they could, they helped bring victory closer—taking the place of fathers and older brothers who had gone to the front. In an instant, they became adults only because their lives had begun at the start of this monstrous war. The fate of such adult children is told in Valentina Oseeva’s audiobook "Father’s Jacket and Other Stories".