Out of the shackles of the official ideology in the Soviet Union, the Russian novels of the Great Patriotic War, which are based on personal experience or the declassified archival materials, focus on the performance of the cruel truths of history. This paper is to explore the historical writing in the novels Cursed and killed (V. P. Astafiev) and The general and his army (G. N. Vladimov). Both writers are efforts to restore historical events, at the same time, correct errors on the values. They have rewritten the history about the Great Patriotic War with the universal values and view of war, and subverted the myths of the Great Patriotic War literature in the Soviet period