In the Trenches of Stalingrad

The novella «In the Trenches of Stalingrad» (first published in 1946) came to the reader not easily and was printed only thanks to the persistence of Alexander Tvardovsky, but it was from this work that the fame of one of the best directions in domestic literature about the Great Patriotic War — «lieutenant prose» — began. Simple and human, largely autobiographical, full of precise details and expressive characters, Nekrasov's novella is a true hymn to «small people» who won a great war, ordinary people who became part of a great feat.