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

In this volume, I. Ehrenburg recounts the 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 terrible trial of N. Bukharin. He also narrates the years of the Great Patriotic War and his enormous 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 front-line trips, 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. Konchalovsky, and many others.