One Hundred Stories About War

Sergey Alekseev 1922-2008, editor, critic, writer. The writer's youth was spent in Orenburg: he studied at a flight school, worked as an instructor in a training aviation regiment, and graduated from the history faculty of a pedagogical institute. Later, he worked in several publishing houses and magazines. Over forty years in literature, Alekseev created more than thirty books dedicated to the history of Russia over four centuries: from the mid-16th to the mid-20th century. These books have been translated into 50 languages of the peoples of the world and gained wide recognition not only in our country but also abroad. A book that has shaped generations of young readers. A book in which the heroic feat of our people in the Great Patriotic War is narrated not in a dry, official language of facts, but in the multivocality of real people who experienced the glorious and terrible years of 1941—1945. What were they like, — the people who defended freedom and independence and destroyed the fascist plague? The talent of the famous writer Sergey Alekseev allows us to see them as alive and remember them forever.