Chapter Forty-Eight
If Yosir had been called a “war correspondent” he would certainly have been insulted. Apart from the very beginning of the first year, he fought alongside all the others – went out on night sorties, withdrew under helicopter fire, fired and returned fire. Although, when the fighting was over and their multinational team, which, apart from the Uzbeks, included Kyrgyz and Uigurs, Chechens and Arabs, starting boasting in their common language of Russian, defying the fear of death they had felt by counting up how many men they had killed, Yosir usually moved away, and everyone assumed it was to make a report to the Centre. And since no one could accuse him of cowardice or of being defeatist, with a certain degree of irritation they allowed this correspondent to detach hims
