V knigu voshli roman "Bereg" i povest' "Batal'ony prosyat ognya" Etot roman o sovremennoy intelligentsii. Glavnyy geroy, izvestnyy sovetskiy pisatel', otpravlyayetsya v Gamburg po priglasheniyu obshchestva lyubiteley literatury. V bogatoy vladelitse knizhnykh magazinov on uznayet nemetskuyu devushku, s kotoroy yego, dvadtsatiletnego leytenanta, stolknula voyennaya sud'ba. Otsyuda vtoroy plan knigi - o poslednikh dnyakh voyny. Roman filosofskiy.
Povest' "Batal'ony prosyat ognya" - o geroizme i muzhestve boytsov i komandirov, pervymi perepravivshikhsya na pravyy bereg Dnepra i vedushchikh tam s fashistami trudnyy neravnyy boy.