Pronzitelnaia skazka zamechatelnogo pisatelia Iuriia Iakovlevicha Iakovleva rasskazhet iunym chitateliam o trudnykh geroicheskikh sobytiiakh voennykh let. Ð"«Kak eto sluchilos? Kak proizoshlo?Ð"» Serezha khotel uvidet voinu sobstvennymi glazami. I povel ego po frontovoi doroge ne kto inoi, kak rodnoi dedushka, pogibshii v neravnom boiuвÐ"¦ Malchiku prishlos proiti cherez mnogie ispytaniia: vyderzhat bombezhku fashistskim samoletom, ryt okopy, pronesti vazhnye svedeniia v shtab pod puliami vraga. Iunyi soldat uvidel, kak ded muzhestvenno brosilsia na vrazheskii tank, chtoby podbit ego. S voiny Serezha vernulsia odin, no eto byl uzhe sovsem drugoi chelovek, v grudi kotorogo bilos serdtce pogibshego deda, sposobnoe v liuboi moment ostanovit nepriiatelia. Kniga proilliustrirovana zhivymi i iskrennimi risunkami izvestnogo khudozhnika Svetozara Aleksandrovicha Ostrova.