Accept the bayonets! Michenkov S.E.

German plans for a lightning -fast war against the USSR were torn by the Moscow battle. For the first time, the German military machine stabbed on the Eastern Front in the fall of 1941

in October 1941. The Germans broke through the front line and rushed to Moscow. A few kilometers remain to the capital's outskirts, when the command decided to introduce into battle detachments formed from cadets of the Podolsk Infantry and Artillery Schools. Ten autumn days, Podolsk cadets held the defense, waiting for the reinforcement approach, winning the time at the cost of their own lives, saving Moscow...

Lieutenant Brother and cadets fiercely defend, sergeant Vorontsov, Alekhin and Smirnov catch German saboteurs, but Cadets end in ammunition. There were a dozen fighters in the companies. German chains are selected to throw a grenade. And then the commanders give the last order: “To join the bayonets!”...

There is no fiction in this book, many heroes are really existing people, their exploits in the late leaf fall - the history of the Great Patriotic War.