The penal battles are asking for fire. For the Dnieper for us there is no land: Roman Kozhukharov

“Rather, the Dnieper will flow back than the Russians overcome this impregnable natural fortress!” – said Hitler in the fall of 1943. The Red Army will have to make the impossible – to force the third (after the Volga and the Danube) river of Europe and break through the deep -stored German defense on the high and steep shore, where, by order of the Fuhrer, a powerful fortified line – the so -called “Eastern Val”.
When Yuri Bondarev wrote his “battalions asking for fire”, the penalty theme was still under the full ban, and no one dared to tell the truth: that the first to the fire, to storm the eastern shaft, in the bloody ice waves of the Dnieper, fines went to faithful death …
A new novel from the author of the bestsellers “die, and hold on!” And “Penal BBUS UNDER PROKHOVKA”! The front -line action movie about the suicide bombers of the Great Patriotic War. The officer’s penal battalion is bleeding at the Dnieper bridgeheads, clinging to a narrow strip of land on the right bank with a dead grip, fulfilling a merciless order: at all costs to hold out until the main forces approach! …

Author
Kozhukharov Roman Romanovich
Publisher
Eksmo, 2013
Series
War. Penalty Bbat. They fought for their homeland
Genre
Modern domestic prose