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ISBN 9780811735995
Stackpole Books
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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BrandStackpole Books
Pub dateApr 28, 2009
ISBN-100811735990
ISBN-139780811735995
Paperback206.0 pages
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions8.9 × 0.6 × 6 in
Weight1 lb
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