Letters from the Front: 'I Saw the Terrible Face of War'. A Collection

Andrei Platonov, one of the most famous Soviet writers, publicist, and playwright, volunteered for the front at the beginning of the war. Soon he was transferred to serve at the newspaper “Red Star”; as its correspondent, he was under Rzhev, on the Kursk salient, in Ukraine, and in Belarus.

Constantly seeing “the terrible face of war,” he couldn’t write everything in his articles, so a release for him was letters to his wife and, especially, notebooks—here you can find details of front-line life that are rarely found even in the most truthful works about war.

In addition, the book includes essays and stories by Andrei Platonov, showing heroic and tragic episodes of the Great Patriotic War.