The novel “Volokolamsk Highway” is the most famous and significant work by the remarkable Russian front-line writer Alexander Bek. People in the rear read this story about the heroic defenders of Moscow; it was carried in the fighters’ field satchels at the front. In France, it was written about as a masterpiece; in Italy, as the most outstanding war-related work in Russian literature; and in Finland, it was studied at the Military Academy.