[PDF.10xv] Penalty Strike: The Memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander, 1943-45 (Stackpole Military History Series)

Penalty Strike: The Memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander, 1943-45 (Stackpole Military History Series)

[PDF.zr93] Penalty Strike: The Memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander, 1943-45 (Stackpole Military History Series)

Penalty Strike: The Memoirs  Alexander V. Pyl'cyn epub
Penalty Strike: The Memoirs  Alexander V. Pyl'cyn pdf download
Penalty Strike: The Memoirs  Alexander V. Pyl'cyn pdf file
Penalty Strike: The Memoirs  Alexander V. Pyl'cyn audiobook
Penalty Strike: The Memoirs  Alexander V. Pyl'cyn book review
Penalty Strike: The Memoirs  Alexander V. Pyl'cyn summary

 | #952847 in Books |  2009-04-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.90 x.60 x6.00l,.82 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

---

||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Company commander in a Soviet penal battalion|By ldw120|First hand experience by a front line penal battalion company commander. The title is a bit misleading but I I can see why they did not call it "Penal Strike" instead. The book is actually about a regular officer, trained in the eastern Soviet Union and assigned to a penal battalion composed of disgraced officers serving p|About the Author|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. Pet

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 th...

You easily download any file type for your device.Penalty Strike: The Memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander, 1943-45 (Stackpole Military History Series)   |  Alexander V. Pyl'cyn. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

Download Now