The Complete History of the Great Patriotic War

This unique book – the first of its kind about the Great Patriotic War. Based on a vast number of archival materials, various sources, eyewitness accounts, and newspapers of that time, it meticulously reconstructs the picture of each day of those terrible and heroic years, each of the 1418 days and nights of the Great War. Famous battles, great feats, bitter defeats, horrific crimes, life at the front, the fates of generals and soldiers – all this is the history of our Victory over the greatest evil in history, born of the human mind. The complete chronicle of the Great Patriotic War is presented vividly, with immense pain, greatest pride, and endless gratitude. The book is supplemented with documents, statistical data, and historical photographs. This encyclopedia should be in every Russian family. As long as we remember that Victory, honor the memory of the heroes and victims of the war, understand what and whom our ancestors fought for, and do not forget its lessons, Russia will live.