A striking story of a child at war told by the son of the regiment. The Second World War. In the first days of the German invasion of the USSR, Nikolay Imchuk (Kolya), an eleven-year-old orphanage pupil, happened to find himself at the front. Then he was injured, captured, put into a POW camp, went underground, and again reached the front. Life strories of the real people, war as it is, with neither embellishment nor understatement, with no excuses or allegations. Cruelty and beauty, death and spring, betrayal and blessing. Homeland, our comrades, friendship and fatherly love. Life is one. One for all.

Sadly, the subject of children in war remains always relevant, even in our days there are places on Earth where other boys and girls like Nikolay are facin the same circumstances. This book tells just one more story, but there will never be too many of them: each one matters. This book is dedicated to all of them.