Five books about the war: Choice of Konstantin Milchin Any selection of books about the war will be obviously incomplete. Is it possible not to include in this list “Life and Fate” by Vasily Grossman, “hot snow” Yuri Bondarev, “south of the main blow” Grigory Baklanov, “Cursed and killed” by Viktor Astafyev, “Volokolamsk highway” by Alexander Bek? And as the list will expand, inevitable claims and additions to it will grow.