There Were Ten of Them

There were only ten of them – volunteers who offered to conduct reconnaissance in battle. In the area of the battalion's advance, where Captain Gleb Shubin was the scout, the enemy had created an impregnable line of defense. Identifying firing positions and the system of fortifications was no easy task. But for Shubin, who had been at the front since the very beginning of the war, solving such puzzles was not uncommon. At first, everything went according to plan: the scouts managed to stealthily approach the first line of German posts and provoke enemy fire. And then... luck turned away from the captain. The entire group would have been listed among the dead if, at the most desperate moment, the brave men had not been aided by... German equipment…