Author of quotes: Mikhail Yurievich Kozhukhov

This book is about the war, and it looks like a piece of bacon: it contains layers of reports from Afghanistan, where I worked for almost four years as a war correspondent, and pages from my diary. In the reports - what the military censorship allowed for publication, and in the diary - what I wanted to say and remember. The book was started right after the war ended and I crossed the bridge over the Amu Darya on the penultimate Soviet armored personnel carrier, and it is finished today ...