This audiobook is about a bitter soldier’s bread. To survive in a cruel war, not to perish among rampaging, beaten-together packs of fellow soldiers, to live through hunger, thirst, and the filth teeming with typhus and hepatitis—that is a feat. And if, in addition, you don’t break, don’t turn into an animal, keep your soul unclouded—compassionate and loving—and still die with dignity, fulfilling your soldier’s duty to the end—doesn’t that mean climbing to the cross? Is there anything holier than a soldier’s fate?