Screen LibraryIvan's war：life and death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
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Metropolitan Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 462 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0805074554 9780805074550 |
| Index Number: | E512 |
| CLC: | E512.9 |
| Call Number: | E512.9/M568 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-439) and index. True war stories -- Marching with revolutionary step -- A fire through all the world -- Disaster beats its wings -- Black ways of war -- Stone by stone -- A land laid waster -- May brotherhood be blessed -- Exulting, grieving, and sweating blood -- Despoil the corpse -- Sheathe the old sword -- And we remember all. A narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources. The men and women of the Red Army, a ragtag mass of soldiers, confronted Europe's most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had defeated it. Sixty years have passed since their epic triumph, but the heart and mind of Ivan--as the ordinary Russian soldier was called--remain a mystery. We know something about how the soldiers died, but nearly nothing about how they lived, how they saw the world, or why they fought. Drawing on previously closed military and secret police archives, |