Его батальон

by Vasil Bykov, Василь Быков

"Povest' Vasilia Bykova ""Ego batal'on"" zakanchivaetsia slovami: ""Voina prodolzhalas'"". Vziatie vysoty, opisyvaemoe avtorom - lish' odin iz epizodov voiny, kotorykh kombatu Voloshinu predstoit perezhit' nemalo i, mozhet byt', pogibnut' v odnom iz nikh. No, kak by ni bylo tiazhelo na fronte, vsegda nado ostavat'sia chelovekom: ""I chem znachitel'nee v cheloveke istinno chelovecheskoe, tem vazhnee dlia nego svoia sobstvennaia zhizn' i zhizn' okruzhaiuschikh ego liudei"".. .. "

Genres: World War II

224 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2005

About the author

Vasil Bykov (Vasil Bykaŭ) was a Belarusian dissident and opposition politician, junior lieutenant, and author of novels and novellas about World War II. A significant figure in Soviet and Belarusian literature and civic thought, his work earned him endorsements for the Nobel Prize nomination from, among others, Nobel Prize laureates Joseph Brodsky and Czesław Miłosz.

Belarusian: Васіль Быкаў
Russian: Василь Быков