About the book: 2010 / A sensational book on the most pressing and controversial topic. Refutation of the most common myths about penal units of the Red Army. Unknown details of the combat use of penal battalions and penal companies on all fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Shocking information that has become available only recently is about women penalty officers, penal air squadrons and entire penal regiments. The whole truth about the suicide bombers of World War II.