Genre literature in the military: subtext, metaphor, escapism

What do the fictional worlds of Ukrainian military writers hide? A reflection of a gloomy reality? A veiled message to the reader? An attempt to entertain him? Or maybe it's just the author's way of escaping, at least for a short while, from combat stress and daily army routine? A conversation about authors who, in the era of non-fiction dominance, do not betray their literary imagination