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Marshal Rokossovsky: Life and Time are only the people who honors his heroes can be considered the great K. was born on December 21 in the small Russian town of Great Luke form. The Pskov province in the family of the railway driver - Pole Xaveria -Yuzeph Rokossovsky and his Russian wife Antonina. After the birth of Konstantin, the Rokossovsky family moved to Warsaw.

In the incomplete 6 years, Kostya is orphaned: his father got into a railway disaster and after a long illness died in a year. Mother died in the year. With the outbreak of World War I, Rokossovsky asked for one of the Russian regiments that followed the west through Warsaw. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he commands the 9th mechanized corps. In the summer of the year he was appointed commander of the 4th Army.

He managed to slightly restrain the advance of the German armies on the Western Front. In the summer of the year it becomes the commander of the Bryansk Front. The Germans managed to approach the Don and, from a favorable position, create a threat to the capture of Stalingrad and a breakthrough into the North Caucasus. The blow of his army, Konstantin Konstantinovich prevented the Germans' attempt to break into the north, towards the city of Yelets.

Rokossovsky participated in the counterattack of Soviet troops near Stalingrad. His ability to conduct hostilities played a large role in the success of the operation. In the year, Rokossovsky led the Central Front, which under his command began a defensive battle on the Kursk arc. A little later, he organized an offensive and liberated significant territories from the Germans.

Twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Rokossovsky, K. Marshal of the Soviet Union K. Rokossovsky begins his memoirs from the pre -war years and ends with the chapters of the defeat of fascist Germany. The book tells how operations of a huge scale were planned and carried out, how the relationship between the headquarters and the front took shape. The author introduces readers to many interesting people.

Konstantin Rokossovsky fell a lot of tests. He participated in three wars - the First World War, the Second World War and in the military conflict in the CTS, suffered from Stalinist repressions, was wounded in battle, enemies attempted him. Memories of K. Rokossovsky tell us about the amazing fate of the Marshal of the Soviet Union and Poland. In the center of the story is the Great Patriotic War.

On the pages of the book, the author consistently restores the circumstances of the most important and bloody battles of war. In a simple and clear language, Marshal sets out the history of his life, giving it the colorful name “Soldier's duty”. Korolchenko, A. The book tells of the most important stages of the life paths of the outstanding commander of the twentieth century, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Poland Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky.

The whole life of Konstantin Konstantinovich is inextricably linked with the Soviet army. Under his command, our troops participated in the largest operations of the Patriotic War: near Moscow and near Stalingrad, near Kursk and Belarus, in East Prussia and Pomerania, in the greatest battle for Berlin. Talking about the fate of the world famous military leader, the author describes the episodes from his life, based on the memoirs of eyewitnesses, gives the statements of the marshal and his assessments of various events and phenomena, which have remained unknown for many years.

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