An Imperial Guardsman from a future in which humanity has mastered the entire galaxy and created cosmic colonial powers is thrown into 1941, to the border of the USSR—onto land already occupied by the fascists. Imperial Guardsmen have extensive combat experience, although they only have to fight against rebels. Imperial Guardsmen are the “elite of the elite”—people who know how to live, think, and act in accordance with the concepts of Duty and Honor, the Emperor’s Will, and Kismet. The hero’s duty and fate is to take part in the great and terrible war that has begun. He has only the surviving fighters from the defeated units of the Red Army at his disposal. But “elite” is not something one is born as—elite becomes…