Warsaw 1944 For two years General Alexei Bogdan and his band of elite Cossack warriors had fought side by side with the Wehrmacht against Stalin´s Red Armies. But now Hitler's panzer divisions were in retreat, fleeing across the the burning steppes of Russia, pursued relentlessly towards the very frontiers of the homeland. Only three things stood in Stalin's the broad, fast-running waters of the River Vistula, the great Polish capital of Warsaw, seething with hatred for the Nazi conqueror, and Genral Alexei Bogdan's Division of Black Cossacks.