It is the story of Behnam Mohammadi Rad, a 13-year-old teenager from Khorramshahr, who on the wake of the Imposed War and the Iraqi invasion of Khorramshahr, begins to defend the city and finally gets martyred. The book, along with the retelling of the story, reflects on the outline of Khorramshahr At the beginning of the Iraqi invasion, the situation of the defenseless people of this city, and the sacrifices of the adolescents and the youth of the city to defend the city. In this book, we get a picture of the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war, the events of the first days of the war and the brave fights of the people, who in an unequal and alley-to-alley battle, defended their soil and home with the least facilities and hand-made bombs. We get to know adolescence who abruptly turns into a great person that makes one wonder. In this book, the life of martyr Behnam Mohammadi has been researched and presented eloquently and attractive-ly in the form of a fiction that enthusiastically carries the reader along. The prose of the story, like many of his other works, is very close to the language used down the street and at the marketplace. The book consists of three major historical epochs: before the revolution, the process of the revolution, and the Imposed War. The writer, due to choosing an omniscient viewpoint, could have written more about the victory of the revolution and articu-late the scenes of the victory of the revolution. The book Behnam’s Story is a readable work in the young adults’ book genre and during reading it, the reader sympathizes with the story’s hero, which encourages him to read the book.

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.