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Grigory Baklanov was a Soviet writer, a veteran of the war, and one of the most prominent exponents of "lieutenant prose," a genre that included Viktor Astafyev, Yuri Bondarev, Vasil Bykov, Boris Vasilyev, and Viktor Nekrasov. In 1941, when Baklanov was 17, he volunteered for the front, fighting in Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, and Hungary. The end of the war found him in Austria, with the rank of junior lieutenant. The authentic episodes of the war depicted in Baklanov's works often ran counter to the ceremonial narrative, but they conveyed the truth the author wanted to tell—what he saw and experienced.

"New generations can't imagine what so-called 'lieutenant prose' was like back in the late 1950s and early 1960s," Baklanov recalled. "It was, first and foremost, a personal perspective on the war. They wrote about what they themselves had learned from the battlefield, making the truth public."
This edition includes Baklanov's well-known war stories "South of the Main Attack" and "A Span of Land," as well as the short stories "It Was the Month of May," "And Now the War Is Over," and "Nadya."
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