Boris Polevoy’s story “Doctor Vera” may perhaps seem like a work of adventure. But it once again confirms the fact, long established by Soviet literature, that life sometimes creates such situations, and a person, in his service to the cause of communism, rises to such heights of feat that even a bright creative fantasy cannot give birth to. As in “The Tale of a Real Man,” the writer talks in this book about a specific, living hero, about real events that occurred during the days of the Great Patriotic War. This time the heroine of the book is a young surgeon, a woman of difficult fate, who was left with the wounded in an occupied city, in a hospital that they did not have time to evacuate. During the long months of occupation, while rescuing the wounded, she wages a dangerous duel with the Gestapo and the occupation authorities, lives a double life, without sacrificing the honor and dignity of a Soviet person. And she wins together with her comrades. And this victory is brought to her by her faith in the great and inevitable victory of the forces of peace and socialism over the forces of fascism and war.