“Native blood. Dimka and Zhuravlev. French lessons. Toward Winter, Bypassing Autumn” is a collection of short stories about childhood that coincided with the war, by the authors Fyodor Knorre, Vasily Konyakov, Valentin Rasputin and Georgy Semyonov. The theme of the collection: in the most difficult trials of life, the one for whom duty, honesty, human dignity and conscientiousness are a natural and necessary norm of behavior wins.