Lyudi I Nelyudi (Russian Edition)

The novel's action spans the pre-war period and the first months of the war. The shadow of war looms over the world. The leaders of Russia, England, and Germany are aware of the inevitable war. Each of them acts on the strength of their intellect, upbringing, education, and sense of honor. Military personnel and civilians, drawn by fate into the bloody whirlwind of events, also suspect the impending war. The author strived to maintain historical accuracy in the novel, using real characters and events alongside fictional characters and plot situations. He mixed the credible with the probable within the framework of the genre. For example, Stalin and Churchill had reliable information about the Barbarossa plan. Before the war, excellent Soviet radars were created in Kharkov, which stood guard over the Moscow skies. The author attempted to reconstruct the military-political atmosphere of that time based on the surviving diaries of Goebbels, Churchill's speeches and appearances, memoirs of Stalin and his letters to Molotov, Halder's war diaries and other sources.