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Penalty Strike: The Memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander, 1943-45

Penalty Strike: The Memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander, 1943-45 - Paperback

by Alexander V. Pyl'cyn
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alexander V. Pyl'cynSeries:Stackpole Military HistoryPublish date:2009-04-28Pages:206
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stackpole BooksISBN-13:9780811735995ISBN-10:811735990UPC:9780811735995Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:World War II, VeteransSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC7XWFJNBR
  • 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.

    • Language:EnglishPublisher:Stackpole BooksISBN-13:9780811735995ISBN-10:811735990UPC:9780811735995Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:World War II, VeteransSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC7XWFJNBR
    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.
    Publisher: Stackpole Books

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