I went on my attack...

"War with Germany. I'm going to Moscow" – this brief entry made by Alexander Twardowski on June 22, 1941, marked the beginning of his military diaries, which the poet would keep every day for the next four years. "I feel capable of doing something very necessary for the people I love so much that when I think of them, my heart tightens…" – wrote the poet. And Twardowski works – besides newspaper articles in which he raises the morale of the soldiers, he writes poetry. He witnessed much – the destruction of retreating divisions near Kyiv, the breakout from encirclement near Kanev, the offensive operations of the 3rd Belarusian Front. He finished the war in Germany. Here, at the front, he creates his famous "Vasily Terkin". The diaries, working notebooks, letters from those years – are an invaluable contribution of the poet to the chronicle of the Great Patriotic War…