Пядь земли: Роман, повести.

The book of the remarkable front-line writer Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov includes the best works that brought the author well-deserved fame and popularity among readers. In the novel "July 41" the writer named among the reasons for the defeat at the beginning of the war the destruction of the officer corps of the Red Army by Stalin. The story "Forever nineteen", dedicated to the fate of young lieutenant officers, yesterday's schoolchildren, was awarded the State Prize of the USSR. Fame for Grigory Baklanov was brought by the immediately famous story "Span of the Earth", which was subsequently republished and filmed many times.