This book and the film of the same name are an attempt to look back in the past years, in a distant land, where the incomprehensible generation of our fathers, creators and winners came from. Without exaggeration, millions of people sang and sing their songs, recite lines from poems, learn the history of their country in their pictures, not knowing neither the names nor, especially, of persons, authors immortal poem 'Wait for me', the endless 'a Random waltz' or frame at all times 'the Victory Banner over the Reichstag'. Konstantin Simonov, Yevgeny Dolmatovsky and Yevgeny Khaldey are three friends from hundreds of war correspondents who have passed through all the intersections of times and circumstances that their generation has inherited.For a wide range of readers, lovers of military prose and poetry. For students of schools and universities.