If you’ve slipped from today into 1941, be ready to go through all the circles of frontline hell: break out of encirclements, fight in a tank brigade and in unit reconnaissance, in the legendary OSNAZ and in the terrifying SMERSH.
You’ll learn how to “swing the pendulum” and shoot with both hands “Macedonian-style,” you’ll clear the Red Army’s rear of enemy spies and saboteurs—and you’ll go behind the front line with an ultra-secret mission that determines the outcome of the war.
But when you return from the assignment, instead of a reward you’ll face a tribunal and a штрафбат—one that makes even the Gulag seem like a resort. Only here will you learn what the ceremonious Stalinist myths are worth, what terrible price was paid for the Great Victory, and what unbearable burden it is to swing the pendulum of Eternity…