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When the war began, Emmanuil Genrikhovich Kazakevich volunteered for the front, served in military intelligence, was awarded 8 military orders and medals. After the end of the war, he was the commandant of a German town for some time.

In 1946, he was demobilized from the army due to illness and returned to Moscow. The very first work of Kazakevich - the story "Star" (1947), based on personal front-line experience and told about the feat of a reconnaissance group, the death of which behind enemy lines paid for valuable military information and, ultimately, a future victory - brought him wide recognition (over 50 publications in many languages).

(First edition offered - 1948)