This book is about the war through the eyes of women, young girls who were nurses, laundresses, sanitary instructors, sappers, snipers, machine gunners, cooks and fought on an equal footing with men. They openly talk not only about how they fought with the enemy, but also about what was not customary to talk about: how difficult it was for them among men, how there was a lack of women's uniforms and underwear, how there were no separate women's dugouts and toilets, how after the war, they hid their medals and were ashamed of their military past, because they faced aggression from the women in the rear, who believed that they had joined the men's collective on the front lines to engage in promiscuity and look for husbands... And how they lived in poverty, but did not ask for help because of disability, because "no one will marry a concussed woman", and they all wanted to get married, and also - great love. After all, they were all women first of all, because only women, even dying from enemy bullets, think about being beautiful, only women in war can look like men and shoot like men, but remain real women inside...