Battalion of Four

3 hrs. 29 min.

Children's Books, Audio Fairy Tales & Poems

Language Russian

Author Leonid Sobolev

Narrator Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Description

Five sailors from a parachute landing deployed at night behind Romanian lines during the offensive near Odessa found themselves, upon landing, cut off from the rest. Their options are limited: either break through to their own, or hold the defense—because soon they’ll be in the path of the retreating enemy. In any case, their numbers are unequal, and their situation is made even worse by the fact that most of their ammunition has already been used in the night battle, and one of them is gravely wounded by a Romanian mine. But they are sailors—because two sailors are worth an entire platoon, three are worth a company, and four are worth a battalion.