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The author of this book, Hero of the Soviet Union, Honored Military Pilot of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Reshetnikov, during the Great Patriotic War, made 307 combat sorties, bombed Konigsberg, was shot down twice - by anti-aircraft fire and enemy fighters (and the second time, having jumped from a burning plane with a parachute, landed on a minefield and miraculously remained alive), but...

In this book, he examines the training of the Red Army in the prewar period to the 'future battles with the imperialists.' What were the people who led the armed forces of the USSR, what weapons they ordered the designers looked like the Soviet military doctrine, what methods to prepare for war officer corps, rank and file soldiers and reservists, how it turned out in the fields v1941-1942 years.

After the release of the Russian movie 'Svolochi', many veteran-chekisty were upset with the way history of these units had been portrayed. This book attempts to set the record straight, about the role these Young Pioneers and Komsomol members played behind and on the front lines.

The memoirs of Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrei Ivanovich Eremenko are dedicated to the events of the Great Patriotic War on the Western, Bryansk and North-Western fronts. The book presents a military-historical description of the heroic defense of Mogilev, the military operations of the 22nd and 21st armies, the Smolensk battle and the actions of the 4th shock army on Seliger. The memoirs...