People, Years, Life. Concern for the Future: Books Four and Five

In this volume, I. Ehrenburg narrates events of the 1930s: the first congress of Soviet writers, international anti-fascist congresses of writers in Paris and Spain, in which the author actively participated, meetings with I. Ilf and E. Petrov, M. Koltsov... and A. Zhid, E. Hemingway and A. Machado, the civil war in Spain, the terrifying trial of N. Bukharin. He also recounts the years of the Great Patriotic War and his immense work in covering it in the press: Ehrenburg's goal was to help the country defeat the enemy. The reader will learn about the author's trips to the front, his meetings with ordinary soldiers and famous military leaders - G. Zhukov, K. Rokossovsky, I. Chernyakhovsky, and L. Govorov, writers K. Simonov and V. Grossman, artist P. Goncharov and many others.