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A Ukrainian-language teacher from Kryvyi Rih, a window fitter from Dnipro, a gangster from Kherson, a grain-truck driver from a small village near Poltava, the owner of a café on the Kakhovka reservoir, a writer from Kyiv, a welder from a steelworks, a car mechanic and a former student: none of them planned to become soldiers. When Russia launched its full-scale invasion, they all took up arms, and now they serve in a separate assault battalion of the Ukrainian army. The book follows them from the forming of the unit to battle: the first assaults, liberated villages and their inhabitants, harsh trench life, wounds and the deaths of comrades, fragile soldiers' happiness, and the end of one life and beginning of another. It is autobiographical, funny and frightening by turns.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

380 pages in the original

Genres

War, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Ukraine

First published

2024 by Віват

ISBN

9786171705951 (original)