Penalty Strike - Couverture souple

Pyl'cyn, Alexander V.

 
9780811735995: Penalty Strike
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0811735990 ISBN 13 : 9780811735995
Editeur : Stackpole Books, 2009

Synopsis

  • Extremely rare (possibly the only) book-length account of a Soviet penal unit in World War II
  • Gritty, intense style conveys the brutality of war on the Eastern Front
    Composed of convicts--soldiers who conducted "unauthorized retreats," former Soviet POWs deemed untrustworthy, and Gulag prisoners--the Red Army's penal units received the most difficult, dangerous assignments, such as breaking through the enemy's defenses. So punishing was life in these units that officers in regular formations threatened to send recalcitrant troops to penal battalions. Alexander Pyl'cyn led his penal unit through the Soviets' massive offensive in the summer of 1944, the Vistula-Oder operation into eastern Germany, and the bitter assault on Berlin in 1945. He survived the war, but 80 percent of his men did not.

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    À propos de l'auteur

    Alexander Pyl'cyn, drafted into the Red Army at eighteen in 1941 and wounded three times, earned the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Great Patriotic War, and the Order of the Red Star for his actions during the war. He lives in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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    Éditeur
    Stackpole Books
    Date d'édition
    2009
    Langue
    anglais
    ISBN 10 
    0811735990
    ISBN 13 
    9780811735995
    Reliure
    Broché
    Nombre de pages
    206
    Coordonnées du fabricant
    non disponible
    Personne responsable
    Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV, GPSR Europäische Union
    info@simonandschuster.nl

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    ISBN 10 :  1874622639 ISBN 13 :  9781874622635
    Editeur : Helion & Company, 2005
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