“There is no land for us for the Volga!” – the defenders of Stalingrad swore, and the Germans dubbed the great river “Russian Styx”: in the fall of 1942, the Volga separated the world of the living from the world of the dead, the Volga glowed from the shore to the shore, boiled from ruptures and flowed with blood. The Volga became the second line of the front, through which reinforcements and ammunition entered the besieged city – and the river war was no less fierce than in the ruins of Stalingrad: the crossings were continuously shelled by artillery and aircraft, people burned, but, despite the monstrous losses, the rivers continued to do their job … and every night to cover the transfers to cover There were Soviet armored boats with tank towers and anti -aircraft machine guns, which became the rod of the Stalingrad flotilla. They sacrificed themselves in unequal battles with German bombers and coastal batteries. They performed the most dangerous tasks and suffered the most difficult losses. Having broken the November ice, they continued to fight when the rest of the ships stood up – and died by the death of the temple …
Author
Pershanin Vladimir Nikolaevich
Publisher
Eksmo, 2013
Series
War. Penalty Bbat. They fought for their homeland
Genre
Modern domestic prose
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