
A brutally realistic novel of WWII! Perfect for fans of David Beaty, Alan Evans, Derek Robinson and Max Hennessy.
A brutally realistic novel of WWII! Perfect for fans of David Beaty, Alan Evans, Derek Robinson and Max Hennessy.
The race to the Baltic is on…
1945
Hitler is dead and the war is entering its final stages as the Red Army sweeps across Germany heading for Berlin.
Punishment Battalion 333, the ‘Gulag Rats’, will not get any of the glory as they fight the last pockets of desperate resistance on their march west. Their mission is to lead the Second White Russian Front to occupy the strategic port of Wismar on the Baltic coast.
The Rats through Eastern Poland, fighting a three-sided war: against the fanatical Germans of the SS, against the Polish nationalists who are fighting for time, and against Kaminsky’s renegade Ukranians.
But as the holocaust of the Eastern Front gathers momentum the Rats find themselves in a deadly fight for survival – and this time they might not come out alive…