Author: Sven Hassel
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297864211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
The Russian uses his machine pistol like a scythe. Feldwebel remains standing for a fraction of a second. The rain of bullets pours into him, making him twitch violently. He falls to the floor. The Russian grins. There is no doubt that he is enjoying himself. Sven Hassel and his comrades are ordered to take O.G.P.U. Prison in any way they can, even if it means killing the Russians with their bare hands. Armed with flame-throwers and heavy artillery, the 27th Penal Regiment plan their attack. O.G.P.U. PRISON is one of Sven Hassel's most compulsively readable novels, full of battle scenes, written in the gritty style that Hassel is renowned for.
O.G.P.U. Prison
Author: Sven Hassel
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297864211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
The Russian uses his machine pistol like a scythe. Feldwebel remains standing for a fraction of a second. The rain of bullets pours into him, making him twitch violently. He falls to the floor. The Russian grins. There is no doubt that he is enjoying himself. Sven Hassel and his comrades are ordered to take O.G.P.U. Prison in any way they can, even if it means killing the Russians with their bare hands. Armed with flame-throwers and heavy artillery, the 27th Penal Regiment plan their attack. O.G.P.U. PRISON is one of Sven Hassel's most compulsively readable novels, full of battle scenes, written in the gritty style that Hassel is renowned for.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297864211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
The Russian uses his machine pistol like a scythe. Feldwebel remains standing for a fraction of a second. The rain of bullets pours into him, making him twitch violently. He falls to the floor. The Russian grins. There is no doubt that he is enjoying himself. Sven Hassel and his comrades are ordered to take O.G.P.U. Prison in any way they can, even if it means killing the Russians with their bare hands. Armed with flame-throwers and heavy artillery, the 27th Penal Regiment plan their attack. O.G.P.U. PRISON is one of Sven Hassel's most compulsively readable novels, full of battle scenes, written in the gritty style that Hassel is renowned for.
Ogpu
Author: Essad (bey)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Police
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Police
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Prisoner of the OGPU
Author: George Kitchin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781549582189
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"Why should we hope? Our lives are wholly blasted, And all of us are damned by destiny?" George Kitchin provides a first-hand account of his four year imprisonment in a Soviet gulag, from 1928-32. At the time of his incarceration, Kitchin, a Finnish citizen, was working in Russia as a representative for an American firm. He was arrested by the Soviet secret police (known as the OGPU at the time), charged with violating an obscure regulation, held in prison, and then sent to a labor camp located in northern Russia where he describes the brutalities he endured and witnessed. He had the good fortune after a time to be assigned clerical work in the office of the penal camp administration. This undoubtedly saved his life and it also gave him a unique opportunity to observe the inner workings of the OGPU organization. As a citizen of Finland, his case was a matter of concern to the Finnish government, whose efforts finally obtained for him permission to leave Soviet Russia. His physical condition after four horrible years was dire. A year and a half were spent in convalescing, and another year in preparing his notes and writing this memoir of his experiences. Prisoner of the OGBU is one of the only first-hand authentic accounts of the penal camps of the Far North, and it is still relevant today in understanding and studying that brutal period of history. 'This for the market of Escape from the Soviets, and others of the sort, an account of the piled-up horrors of a prison camp of the Soviet Secret Police. Kitchin was a representative of Finnish interests, and got caught on a technicality and sent for four horrible years to the far north. First hand data of Soviet methods and inefficiencies, of the regime and a revealing picture of behind the scenes, of incredible brutalities. Well done and thrillingly absorbing reading.' - Kirkus Reviews
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781549582189
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"Why should we hope? Our lives are wholly blasted, And all of us are damned by destiny?" George Kitchin provides a first-hand account of his four year imprisonment in a Soviet gulag, from 1928-32. At the time of his incarceration, Kitchin, a Finnish citizen, was working in Russia as a representative for an American firm. He was arrested by the Soviet secret police (known as the OGPU at the time), charged with violating an obscure regulation, held in prison, and then sent to a labor camp located in northern Russia where he describes the brutalities he endured and witnessed. He had the good fortune after a time to be assigned clerical work in the office of the penal camp administration. This undoubtedly saved his life and it also gave him a unique opportunity to observe the inner workings of the OGPU organization. As a citizen of Finland, his case was a matter of concern to the Finnish government, whose efforts finally obtained for him permission to leave Soviet Russia. His physical condition after four horrible years was dire. A year and a half were spent in convalescing, and another year in preparing his notes and writing this memoir of his experiences. Prisoner of the OGBU is one of the only first-hand authentic accounts of the penal camps of the Far North, and it is still relevant today in understanding and studying that brutal period of history. 'This for the market of Escape from the Soviets, and others of the sort, an account of the piled-up horrors of a prison camp of the Soviet Secret Police. Kitchin was a representative of Finnish interests, and got caught on a technicality and sent for four horrible years to the far north. First hand data of Soviet methods and inefficiencies, of the regime and a revealing picture of behind the scenes, of incredible brutalities. Well done and thrillingly absorbing reading.' - Kirkus Reviews
OGPU, the Russian Secret Terror
Author: Grigoriĭ Sergeevich Agabekov
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Secret service
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Secret service
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Transcripts from the Soviet Archives Volume XII 1932
Author: Erdogan A
Publisher: Erdogan A
ISBN: 1329473191
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Transcripts From Soviet Archives, Kremlin Archives, Soviet Village through the eyes of CHEKA - OGPU- NKVD, 1932
Publisher: Erdogan A
ISBN: 1329473191
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Transcripts From Soviet Archives, Kremlin Archives, Soviet Village through the eyes of CHEKA - OGPU- NKVD, 1932
The Role of the OGPU in Dekulakization, Mass Deportations, and Special Resettlement in 1930
Author: Lynne Viola
Publisher: Pittsburgh, [Pa.] : Center for Russian & East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher: Pittsburgh, [Pa.] : Center for Russian & East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Terror by Quota
Author: Paul R. Gregory
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300152787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This original analysis of the workings of the Soviet state security organs under Lenin and Stalin illuminates the ways in which terror and repression in the Soviet Union were used during this period.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300152787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This original analysis of the workings of the Soviet state security organs under Lenin and Stalin illuminates the ways in which terror and repression in the Soviet Union were used during this period.
In the Toils of the O.G.P.U.
Author: Karl Gustav Kindermann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Correctional institutions
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Correctional institutions
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Letters from Russian Prisons
Author: International Committee for Political Prisoners
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A Death in Washington
Author: Gary Kern
Publisher: Enigma Books
ISBN: 0982491158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
This is the first book to recover all original documents released by the British archives in 2002 and by the FBI, completing the author's ten-year study.
Publisher: Enigma Books
ISBN: 0982491158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
This is the first book to recover all original documents released by the British archives in 2002 and by the FBI, completing the author's ten-year study.