GRU special forces. Essays on history. Historical encyclopedia. Book 1. In 2 volumes. 1701-1941. 1941-1945: Sergey Kozlov

Volume 1: For the starting point, 1701 was taken – the year of the creation of Peter I of the Flying Corps – Korvolanta – to combat the enemy on the ways of supplying the army. The following are described in detail the actions of partisan detachments and volatile corps during the Patriotic War of 1812, the special actions of which determined the outcome of the war. The history of the emergence, preparation and application of Cossack units of plastunes, both in the Caucasus and during the Crimean (1853-1856) and the Turkish campaign (1877-1878) describes the experience of the use of partisans in the Russian-Japanese War (1904-1905) and during the Great War (1914-1918). Examples of the actions of partisan formations during the Civil War in Russia (1918-1920) are given both the Red and the White Army. It tells about the creation of the first standard reconnaissance-sabotage formations of the Red Army created in the period 1934-1938. The experience of partisan actions that the Partisan Corps created under the leadership of advisers to the Soviet military RA conducted during the Civil War in Spain …

Author
Kozlov Sergey Vladislavovich
Publisher
Russian panorama, 2013
Series
Library of the scout