Was the war in Afghanistan as meaningless as it was merciless? You’ll find the answer to this question in the remarkable novel by Yu. Korotkov, «The Ninth Company», although its heroes—eighteen-year-old Soviet boys thrown into the gears of war—had no time for historical generalizations.
They didn’t fear a direct face-to-face clash with the «Black Storks»—an elite unit of Arab saboteurs, whose encounter is equivalent to an invitation to one’s own funeral.
A famous film story by a talented author, which served as the basis for a film of the same name.