The Penal Tanker
28 hrs. 46 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Vladimir Pershanin
Author
Vladimir Pershanin
Narrator
Windman
Narrator
Windman
Description
THREE BESTSELLERS in one volume! The best frontline prose of the new millennium—worthy of being included in the golden fund of literature about the Great Patriotic War. “The Truth of the Trench,” of the highest caliber. The entire trilogy of SHTRAFNIK—TANKIST.
He has been at the front since 1941. Behind him are the defense of Moscow and the Stalingrad campaign, the Battle of Kursk, and the fight for the Dnieper. In battles he lost hundreds of friends; he himself was disabled six times, was wounded, and burned in a tank—yet he always returned to the ranks. In the terrible autumn of 42, when the fate of the country was being decided, he was thrown into the gears of the merciless Order No. 227 (“Not one step back!”). There were no penalty companies in tank troops, but there were their own штрафники—those to whom the most deadly, impossible, and lethally dangerous missions were given. And he became just such a штрафник: he went on hopeless tank raids into the enemy rear, somehow returned alive from suicide reconnaissance in combat, and one survived out of an entire tank battalion—while the nickname SHTRAFNIK, given by an overly vigilant political officer, stuck to him until the end of the war, which did not even end with the fall of Berlin. Over the Reichstag, the red flag is already flying, victory salutes are thundering—but he still has one last, the hardest battle…
He has been at the front since 1941. Behind him are the defense of Moscow and the Stalingrad campaign, the Battle of Kursk, and the fight for the Dnieper. In battles he lost hundreds of friends; he himself was disabled six times, was wounded, and burned in a tank—yet he always returned to the ranks. In the terrible autumn of 42, when the fate of the country was being decided, he was thrown into the gears of the merciless Order No. 227 (“Not one step back!”). There were no penalty companies in tank troops, but there were their own штрафники—those to whom the most deadly, impossible, and lethally dangerous missions were given. And he became just such a штрафник: he went on hopeless tank raids into the enemy rear, somehow returned alive from suicide reconnaissance in combat, and one survived out of an entire tank battalion—while the nickname SHTRAFNIK, given by an overly vigilant political officer, stuck to him until the end of the war, which did not even end with the fall of Berlin. Over the Reichstag, the red flag is already flying, victory salutes are thundering—but he still has one last, the hardest battle…
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