Live to See the Dawn

"The author of the most piercing books about war", "the most read Belarusian author in the world", "the last realist writer in Europe" - all this has been said about Vasily Bykov, the creator of the famous stories "Sotnikov", "Live... to See the Dawn", "To Go and Not Come Back"... Bykov's works marked a new stage in literature's understanding of military events, combining the tragic specifics of war, the "trench truth", with "eternal" problems of human existence. How to retain humanity in inhuman circumstances? What to save amidst the horrors of war - the body or the soul? For what does a person suffer, does one live only for oneself? These and other questions are sought answers to by the heroes of Vasily Bykov, an outstanding master of military prose of the 20th century.