Kriegstagebücher 2

by Konstantin Simonov

Dnevniki Konstantina Simonova, kotorye on vel, buduchi voennym korrespondentom v 1941-1945 godakh, - odno iz naibolee yarkikh svidetel'stv samoj krovavoj voennoj kampanii XX veka. Tragizm voenno-politicheskikh neudach sovetskogo rukovodstva v pervyj god vojny ne sluchajno delaet stol' ob'emnoj knigu o ee nachale v 1941 g. Starayas' byt' bespristrastnym svidetelem, avtor nazval vospominaniya ''Raznye dni vojny'', ostaviv za sovremennikami i potomkami pravo samostoyatel'no vynesti suzhdenie ob opisyvaemykh sobytiyakh i opredelit' ikh istoricheskuyu znachimost'.

701 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov was a Soviet author. He was best known as a poet who wrote a popular poem, "Wait for Me," about a soldier at the front asking his beloved to await his return. Simonov addressed the poem to his future wife, the actress Valentina Serova. The poem was immensely popular at the time and remains one of the best-known poems in the Russian language. Simonov wrote many more poems to Valentina, subsequently included in the collection With You and Without You.

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Константин Михaйлович Симонов, советский писатель, общественный деятель. Герой Социалистического Труда (1974). Лауреат Ленинской (1974) и шести Сталинских премий (1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950). Заместитель генерального секретаря СП СССР. Член ВКП(б) с 1942 года