Volokolamsk Highway

The masterpiece of military prose "Volokolamsk Highway" has been translated into ten languages. It vividly describes the terrible days of the defense of Moscow during the Great Patriotic War… The novel was read by Ernesto Che Guevara, and Fidel Castro, in response to the question of who among the heroes of World War II he considers his idol, said without hesitation: "Baurdzhan Momysh-uly — the hero of Alexander Bek’s book 'Volokolamsk Highway'.