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Penalty Strike

By Alexander V. Pyl'cyn
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$18.95
By Alexander V. Pyl'cyn
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  • 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 format...