xiv, 231 pp. Amid thunderous shouts and flashing sabers a Cossack army galloped into the open and with horrible fury cut and hacked a German Panzer division to pieces. This was the summer of 1942, and as Russian General Kirichenko said after the battle, "It took the Germans eight days to bury their dead." The collapse of the Hitler armies marks another victory to be added to the roll of Cossack fortunes which for five centuries have shaken thrones, convulsed nations, made rulers, Russian and foreign, tremble with panic and awe.--jacket
