The long-awaited continuation of the main military-historical bestseller of the past year. Honest and detailed memoirs of penal veterans who survived the most terrible battles. In-depth analysis by professional historians exploring a previously taboo topic. Recently declassified archival documents shed light on the details of combat use and daily life of Soviet penal units. Refutation of evil anti-Soviet myths and fakes like the notorious television series “Penal Battalion”. All this is in the new book of the project “The Truth about Penal Battalions”