Valka Krys
David L. Robbins
Stalingrad, cervenec 1942 - brutalni oblehani mesta zacina...
Po vice nez sest mesicu je Stalingrad dejistem kolosalniho stretu ruskych a nemeckych armad, jedna z nejkrvavavejsich bitev ve valecnych dejinach lidstva. Jeji vysledek bude klicovy. Nezastavi-li obranci Hitlerovu invazi, Rusko padne! David L. Robbins svym britkym stylem a dokonalou historickou presnosti vnasi ctenare primo do srdce teto monumentalni bitvy.
Nemecti vojaci bitvu o Stalingrad nazyvaji "RATTENKRIEG" - valkou krys. V tomto straslivem valecnem stretu se vitezstvi meri v metrech, kde vojaci umiraji ve sklepich a zakopech zniceneho mesta. Po apokalyptickem kolbisti Stalingradu se pohybuji dva muzi - jeden Rus a druhy Nemec - nejlepsi ostrelovaci svych armad. Mlady rusky vojak, prezdivany ZAJIC, si povest predniho ostrelovace Rude armady vybudoval svym kredem "jeden muz, jedna kulka". Je poveren zalozenim improvizovane odstrelovacske skoly, v niz skoli muze i zeny v umeni zabijet na dalku, presne a neomylne. Nemci teto hrozbe celi tim, ze do Stalingradu vyslou instruktora, sefa elitni nacisticke odstrelovacske skoly. Oba muzi dostanou stejny rozkaz - nalezt a zabit sveho soka!
Zalezitost navic komplikuje pritomnost Americanky, Tani Cernovove, ktera se dostala do Ruska na zacatku valky a do Stalingradu prisla z partyzanskeho odboje. Neohrozena, vzdorna divka, touzici pomstit smrt svych prarodicu, vstupuje do Zajicova tymu odstrelovacu a stava se jednim z jeho nejtalentovanejsich zabijaku - a zaroven i jeho nejvetsi slabinou. Neobycejny souboj zacina...
Na vychozich souradnicich cache nehledejte! Zde najdete jen monumentální památník na dobu pretezkou, kterou by nikdo z nas jiste nechtel zazit (viz. Památník II. světové války Hrabyně). Zde se dozvite rovnez neco i o bitve u Stalingradu, ktera byla jednou z nejdrsnejsich a nejdulezitejsich bitev II. svetove valky, jejiz vysledek dejiny vyrazne ovlivnil - kdo vi co by se delo, kdyby to dopadlo jinak.
Cache byla zalozena na pamatku vsech padlych presne v den 70. vyroci od ukonceni boju, tedy kapitulace nemeckeho polniho marsala Friedricha Pauluse 2.2.1943
A co pro nalez musite udelat? Asi vic nez obvykle! :) Neni treba resit rebusy ani zadne tajenky, staci precist tuto knihu! Mohu vam jen slibit, ze kniha od Davida L. Robbinse, jejíž príbeh je sice fiktivni, ale inspirovan skutecnymi postavami a zasazen do skutecnych realii a historickych udalosti, je strhujici. Misto pokoutneho ziskani souradnic, ci (nekym) oblibene strategie "brute-force", uprimne doporucuji knihu opravdu precist. Tato cache neni ani tak o krabicce a nalezu, spise o samotne knize - o jejim pribehu, o hruzach valky, o historii, o Stalingradu. Logbook uz bude jen bonusem a odmenou!
Stalingrad kes byla puvodne opravdu umistena (v jiz zminene vyroci) na tanku T34 (jenz se - coby typ tanku - bitvy u Stalingradu rovnez zucastnil), ale diky kolizi se dvema sousedicima kesema a neuprosnymi pravidly byl publish odlozen a finalka premistena jinam...
Jedna poznamka zaverem: mozna jste meli moznost shlednout hollywoodsky snimek Nepritel pred branami (2001), jehoz scenar byl touto knihou castecne inspirovan. At uz se vam film libil nebo ne, muzu vam slibit, ze kniha je (jak uz to tak obvykle byva) lepsi!
Staci odpovedet na 12 jednoduchych otazek zminenych nize a souradnice jsou vase!
(vsechny odpovedi naleznete v teto knize)
War of the Rats
David L. Robbins
Stalingrad, July 1942 - brutal siege begins...
For more than six months in 1942, Stalingrad is the center of a titanic struggle between the Russian and German armies - the bloodiest campaign in mankind's long history of warfare. The outcome is pivotal. If Hitler's forces are not stopped, Russia will fall. And with it, the World...
German soldiers call the battle "RATTENKRIEG" - war of the rats. The combat is horrific, as soldiers die in the smoking cellars and trenches of a ruined city. Through this twisted carnage stalk two men - one Russian (nicknamed HARE), one German - each the top sniper in his respective army. These two marksmen are equally matched in both skill and tenacity. Each man has his own mission: to find his counterpart - and kill him!
But an American woman trapped in Russia complicates this extraordinary duel. Joining the Russian sniper's cadre, she soon becomes one of his most talented assassins - and perhaps his greatest weakness. This is the harrowing tale of two adversaries enmeshed in their own private war - and whose fortunes will help decide the fate of the world...
Do not search on given coordinates! You can find there only a monumental memorial of horrifying times which nobody would like to experience (details are here: The World War II Memorial Hrabyně). You can find there also some info about the battle of Stalingrad. This cache is dedicated to the memory of all fallen in one of the most important and rough battles of II. World War. Its result was cruical for later events and who knows what would happen if the result was different.
The cache was established exactly on the 70th. anniversary of the end of the battle i.e. 2.2.1943 when the German field-marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendered.
And what do you have to do for the find? Probably more than usual! :) You don't need to solve any puzzle or riddle, you just have to read this book! I can just promise that David L. Robbins' book - which is fictional but inspirated by the true story and placed to the real locations and historical events - is really fascinating. Instead of the final coordinates trading or (for somebody) a popular "brute-force" tactic I would like to highly recommend to really read this book. This cache is not about the canister and find itself, it is especially about the book, about a terror of war, about history, about Stalingrad. The logbook is just a bonus and reward!
The Stalingrad cache was really placed (during the mentioned anniversary) on a tank T34 (which - as a type of a tank - fought in Stalingrad as well), however, because of two nerby caches and their coordinates-collision, plus strict geocaching rules, the publish had been postponed and the final cache relocated elsewhere...
Final comment: You had maybe already seen a Hollywood movie Enemy at the Gates (2001), its script had been partially inspired by this book. Doesn't matter if you liked the movie or not, I can just tell you that the book is (as usual) much better than the movie!
You just need to answer 12 easy questions written below and the coordinates are yours!
(all answers can be found in the book)
4A° BC.DEF
1G° HI.JKL
Prosim, nevyzrazujte finalni souradnice v logu, ani ve fotogalerii - takove zaznamy budou smazany!
Please, do not reveal the final coordinates neither in your log, nor in the photogallery - such logs will be deleted!
A=?
- Komu byla kniha venovana?
- To whom was the book dedicated?
5) Carol, Linda, Jack
6) John, Barry, Roger
7) Sam, Lenny, William
8) Julia, Roger, Tom
9) Sam, Carol, Barry
B=?
- Diky kolika Rusum (zakopanym a ukrytym ve sklepe delnickeho domu) museli vyhodit Nemci do povetri kompletne celou budovu, aby ziskali tuto pozici? (Nikki vypravel tuhle historku kapitanu Merckererovi)
- For how many Russians (who were holed up in the basement of house in workers' settlement) Germans had to blown up the entire building just to be able to gain that position? (Nikki was telling this story to captain Mercker)
C=?
- Kolik ruznych velikosti tercu pripravili Zajcev s Medvedevem pro novacky na improvizovane tréningove strelnici?
- How many different sizes of targets had been prepared by Zaitsev and Medvedev for recruits on the improvised training shooting range?
D=?
- Tana jednou zahledla kulometcika, ktery se v noci kryl pred padajicim snehem destnikem - jakou mel ten destnik (v nocním svitu) barvu?
- Once Tanya saw a heavy machine gun operator at night, hinding himself under an umbrella which kept the falling snow off - what was the colour of that umbrella? (in the moonlight)
0) cervenou / red
1) zlutou / yellow
2) fialovou / purple
3) zelenou / green
4) ruzovou / pink
5) modrou / blue
6) bilou / white
7) rudou / dark red
8) oranzovou / orange
9) sedou / grey
E=?
- Kolik mrtvol nemeckych vojaku (u velitelskeho bunkru kpt. Manhardta) Thorvald ohledal, ve snaze zjistit pozice ruskych ostrelovacu?
- How many bodies of German soldiers (near headquarters bunker of cpt. Manhardt) Thorvald had to investigate to be able to determine shooting positions of Russian snipers?
0) tri / three
1) osm / eight
2) sest / six
3) pet / five
4) devet / nine
5) deset / ten
6) ctyri / four
7) trinact / thirteen
8) sedm / seven
9) jedenact / eleven
F=?
- Kolik ruskych vojaku tvorilo prvni skupinu dobrovolnych ostrelovacu 284. divize?
- How many Russian soldiers were in the first group of sniper volunteers from 284. division?
0) 20
1) 45
2) 60
3) 40
4) 15
5) 50
6) 30
7) 35
8) 25
9) 10
G=?
- Thorvald i Zajecev strileli s ruskou odstrelovaci puskou Moisin-Nagant model 91/30 s ctyrnasobnym priblizenim a razi 7.62 Jakou razi ma druha odstrelovaci puska, tehdy pouzivana predevsim nemeckymi odstrelovaci? /v mm/
- Both Thorvald and Zajecev were shooting with the Russian Moisin-Nagant model 91/30 sniper rifle with a four-power scope which fires a seven-point-six-two-caliber load. What load fires the second sniper rifle used mostly by German snipers that time? /in mm/
H=?
- V kterem meste zili prarodice od Tani?
- In which city were Tanya's grandparents living?
0) Minsk
1) Varsava / Warsaw
2) Kiev
3) Odesa / Odessa
4) Kaunas
5) Lvov
6) Riga
7) Peterburg / St. Petersburg
8) Sevastopol
9) Vilnius
I=?
- Kolik rusek provozovalo tajny bordel ve sklepe uprostred stalingradskeho bojiste?
- How many Russian women were running a secret bordello in a cellar in the middle of the Stalingrad battlefield?
J=?
- Kolik odstrelovacu (x) ze Zajecevovy skupiny bylo zabito diky chybe Tani behem akce a zabiti (y) nemeckych pesaku?
- How many (x) Zajecev's snipers died because of Tanya's mistake during killing of (y) German infantrymen?
0) 7 vs. 25
1) 5 vs. 16
2) 4 vs. 12
3) 6 vs. 23
4) 4 vs. 21
5) 3 vs. 21
6) 3 vs. 17
7) 4 vs. 15
8) 5 vs. 15
9) 2 vs. 11
K=?
- Jake letadlo dopravilo Thorvalda do Gumraku, letiste vdaleneho pouhych 15km od centra Stalingradu?
- What kind of plane transported Thorvald to Gumrak airport, located just 15km away from Stalingrad's city center?
0) Junkers Ju 86
1) Focke-Wulf Fw 189
2) Junkers Ju 88
3) Heinkel He-111
4) Dornier Do 17
5) Focke-Wulf Fw 200
6) Junkers Ju 290
7) Heinkel He 177
8) Dornier Do 217
9) Blohm & Voss BV 141
L=?
- Jak pojmenoval zajecev vycpanou figurinu, pouzitou pri jedne akci jako navnadu?
- How Zajecev named his one stuffed cotton dummy used as subterfuge during one mission?
0) Jurij / Yury
1) Viktor / Victor
2) Dmitrij / Dmitry
3) Oleg
4) Ivan
5) Andrej / Andrei
6) Nikita
7) Pjotr / Pyotr
8) Sergej / Sergei
9) Boris
- Autor knihy by chtel uvest a doporucit nasledujici prace, pojednavajici o Rusku a bitve o Stalingrad:
- Author of the book would like to list and recommend this titles describing Russia and the Battle of Stalingrad:
Beevor Anthony - Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943. Viking 1998
Chuikov Vasili I. - The battle for Stalingrad (Rinehhart and Winston, 1964)
Clark Alan - Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-1945 (William Morrow, 1965)
Craig William - Enemy at the gates: The battle of Stalingrad (Reader's Digest Press, 1973)
Glantz David M. & Jonathan M. House / When Titans clashed: How the Red Army stopped Hitler (University press of Kansas, 1995)
Jukes Geoffrey - Stalingrad: The turning point (Ballantine Books, 1968)
Keegan John - The Second World War (Penguin books, 1989)
Shroter Heinz - Stalingrad (C. Fitzgibbon, E.P. Dutton, 1958)
Seth R. - Stalingrad: Point of return (Coward-McCann, 1959)
Shipler DAvid K. - Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams (Times Books, 1983)
Tantum William - Sniper rifles of two wars (Historical Arms series no.8 Museum Restoration Service, 1967)
Two hundred days of fire: Acounts by participants and witnesses of the battle od Stalingrad (Progres publishers, 1970)
Werth Alexander - Russia at War, 1941-1945 (E.P. Dutton, 1964)
The year of Stalingard (H. Hamilton, 1946)
Zajcev Vasilij - Za Volgoj zemlji dlja nas nebylo (Moskva, 1971)
Prelozil Jiri Sedlacek
BB Art 2000 (ISBN 80-7257-280-6)
Prvni vydani v ceskem jazyce
Bantam Books mass market edition, June 2000
(ISBN 0-553-58135-X)