Nasser was looking for an Iraqi officer in the trenches. The two of us had missed the battalion. I asked him what he was looking for. He said he was looking for an Iraqi to ask him the outcome of the World Cup finals. At that time, they brought in a group of Iraqi POWs. Nasser rushed to them and asked the outcome in Arabic. One of the captives said that Argentina had won. Nasser jumped up joyfully and the other Iraqi POWs rejoiced with him and shouted, “Maradona, Maradona”.

Davood Amirian is the writer who well-known figure in the Iranian children and young adults' literature. His main interest of subject is war literature. He published his memories of Iran-Iraq war at the age of twenty. Satire and presence of young active and ambitious youths are characteristics of Amiriyan's works. A lot of his books have been published in Iran and other countries, for instance in Russia.