And the Dawns Here Are Quiet...

Boris Lvovich Vasilyev (1924–2013) – Russian writer and screenwriter. With the onset of the Great Patriotic War, he volunteered for the front as part of the fighter Komsomol battalion. He fought near Smolensk and near Vyazma. More than thirty books created by Vasilyev rightfully became classics of Russian literature. The collection includes the most well-known works of B. Vasilyev about the war. The story "And the Dawns Here Are Quiet..." (1969) is dedicated to the great, but unreported in military chronicles, feat of five young female anti-aircraft gunners, under the command of sergeant Vaskov, who in May 1942 engaged in an unequal battle with a group of German saboteurs. The action of the novella "Tomorrow Was War" (1984) takes place on the eve of war. It is a story about graduates who were soon to take up arms and go to the front – to defend their homeland. The novella "Not Listed" (1974) glorifies the feat of a true Russian soldier, the last defender of the Brest Fortress, lieutenant Pluzhnikov