About the book: 2008 / At the height of the Second World War, Winston Churchill said that “never before has so much depended on so few.” The British prime minister was referring to the fighter pilots who won the Battle of England, but his words fully apply to the war of sabotage. Terror behind enemy lines did not in any way correspond to the idea of ​​a “gentleman’s war,” however, all parties involved in the global conflict were actively They used saboteurs - the Soviet OMSBON, the German special forces regiment "Brandenburg", British commandos, and American rangers terrified the enemy. Daring raids on the enemy’s rear, using his weapons and uniforms, destruction of important objects, attacks on communications, merciless “rail war” - the actions of saboteurs were very costly for the enemy, sowed panic in the rear, and seriously disrupted the supply of front-line units. Even an unconfirmed rumor about the appearance of an enemy sabotage group somewhere nearby could demoralize entire units, as happened more than once in the summer of 1941, when the Red Army had to take draconian measures against “fear of sabotage.” But they continued to be feared and hated on both sides of the front and were almost never captured. This book tells in detail about the life and death of World War II saboteurs, their training, tactics and combat use. Some operations, such as the “rail war” of NKVD saboteurs or the “work” in the Soviet rear of the Brandenburg regiment, are widely known; about others, for example, about the actions of special groups of the Soviet marines in the Arctic, even experts learned only in recent years.