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Evgeny Sukhov
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Series: Trench Truth of Victory

Burning Stones

January 1945. General Chuikov's Eighth Guards Army storms the fortress city of Poznań.

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Original publisher:
Eksmo
Year:
2021
Language:
Russian (original)
Pages:
321
ISBN:
978-5-04-162204-6
Translations:
English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (in preparation)
Burning StonesExcerpt in Russian.

About the book

January 1945. General Chuikov's Eighth Guards Army storms the fortress city of Poznań. In the vanguard of the advancing forces is the battalion of Major Prokhor Burmistrov. The fighters knock the Germans out of the railway station, force the Warta river and capture one of the fortress's forts. However, recovering from the first blow, the fascists launch a counterattack and block our men on the upper floors of the building. The count between life and death has gone to minutes. Burmistrov understands that they will have to break through the ring of pressing Hitlerites on their own...

It tells of the military operation to take the German fortress city of Poznań and is dedicated to the assault battalions, or “armoured infantry” as the troops called them. [...] The novel is based on documents, including German sources. But it would be wrong to call it a documentary work. First of all it is a military-historical novel, with pain and joy and love in it...

Evgeny Sukhov · The author's Instagram, 19 October 2021 · translated from Russian

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Burning Stones