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

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ISBN
9780811735995

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Stackpole Books
ISBN-10
0811735990
ISBN-13
9780811735995
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72349959

Product Key Features

Book Title
Penalty Strike : the Memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander, 1943-45
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Military / World War II, Military
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Alexander V. Ply'cyn
Book Series
Stackpole Military History Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Dewey Decimal
940.548147
Synopsis
Made up of soldiers who conducted "unauthorized retreats," former POWs deemed untrustworthy, and Gulag prisoners, the Red Army's penal units carried out some of the most terrifying assignments on the Eastern Front, such as storming German machine-gun nests., Made up of soldiers who conducted "unauthorized retreats," former POWs deemed untrustworthy, and Gulag prisoners, the Red Army's penal units carried out some of the most terrifying assignments on the Eastern Front, such as storming German machine-gun nests. Alexander Pyl'cyn led his penal company in 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., 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., 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."
LC Classification Number
D811

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