Charles Whiting
ASIN: B00ZUN0I4A
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 186
1941, Moscow is under siege.As the Second World War rages on, the Nazis advance relentlessly into Russia.The Red Army is in dire straits and its commanders need reinforcements, but there is one problem: there are no men left to send…In desperation the Chief of the NKVD, Beria, empties the labour camps.Filled with traitors, reactionaries, pimps, whoremasters, black marketeers, murderers and perverts, they are no longer men.From their numbers the roughest, toughest and wildest band of cutthroats are banded together, and Punishment Battalion 333 is formed.At their head is the bitter and sadistic Colonel Katukov, who thinks little of the Gulag Rats under his command.Distrusted and treated with contempt, the Battalion soon finds itself facing their Baptism of Blood at Kasnaya.Under attack from Admiral Canaris’ crack regiment, the Brandenburgers, they fight like the hounds of hell, with a ...