ASIN: B018SQ8658
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Pages: 179
‘Whiting… is a skilled and prolific writer…’ – The Spectator Russia, 1941. The 69th Infantry Regiment wear the King’s Cross for the blood they shed during the invasion of Poland. But the Sixty-Ninth, under the command of Major von Dietz, are entirely unprepared for the horrors that await them in Russia.Hitler is determined that his German troops will succeed where Napoleon’s failed, and so the Sixty-Ninth begins a long and deadly march on Moscow. The trek takes them across Russia’s snowbound steppe; starving, freezing, and plagued with desertion, the regiment struggles to pull together to fight Cossacks, wolves, and Stalin’s suicidal ski-troops.But the horrors of the march into Russia slip away compared to what awaits Red Rudi, Private Maltitz and the rest of the regiment once they begin their retreat. Three thousand men made their way into the barbed-wire snowdrifts of the Russian ...
