| FACING PAGE |
| "With somber faces ... their muscles stiff with insufficient sleep" | Frontispiece |
| "The mother ... strained her untrained mind to listen" | 34 |
| "It seemed to Vlasova that the officer was but waiting for her tears" | 92 |
| "Taking out one package of books after the other, she shoved them into the hands of the brothers" | 116 |
| "The mother's heart quivered with impatience" | 142 |
| "'Listen, for the sake of Christ'" | 232 |
| "The men listened in silence" | 296 |
| "'Run, run!' whispered the mother" | 428 |
