One Hundred Stories About War

Sergey Alexeyev 1922-2008, editor, critic, writer. The young years of the writer were spent in Orenburg: he studied at a flight school, worked as an instructor at a training aviation regiment, and graduated from the history department of a pedagogical institute. Later, he worked in several publishing houses and magazines. Over forty years of work in literature, Alexeyev created more than thirty books dedicated to the history of Russia over four centuries: from the mid-16th to the mid-20th century. These books have been translated into 50 languages of the peoples of the world and gained wide recognition not only in our country but also abroad. A book that has raised generations of young readers. A book in which the heroic feat of our people in the Great Patriotic War is told not in a dry, official language of facts, but in the diverse voices of real people who experienced the glorious and terrible years of 1941–1945. Who were they, the people who defended freedom and independence and destroyed the fascist plague? The talent of the famous writer Sergey Alexeyev allows us to see them as if they were alive and to remember them forever.