This book is a collection of well-known and unknown songs popular among Soviet combatants - soldiers and officers of penal units of the Red Army in the 40s of the twentieth century. The book was written on the basis of the front-line notebook of the deputy platoon commander (later platoon commander) of the 322nd separate army penal company, Mikhail Grigorievich Klyuchko. This is the second edition of this book. The first edition was published in 2003 with a circulation of 100 copies in the Kiev publishing house “Planet of People”. Contains obscene language.