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Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945

By Catherine Merridale

Book information

Publisher
Picador
Year
2006
ISBN
0312426526, 9780312426521
Open Library ID
OL9753234M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3029206 bytes)
Pages
462\0
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

They died in vast numbers, eight million men and women driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the soldiers of the Red Army, an exhausted mass of recruits who confronted Europe's most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had defeated it. For sixty years, their experiences were suppressed, replaced by patriotic propaganda. We know how the soldiers died, but nearly nothing about how they lived, how they saw the world, or why they fought. In this ambitious, revelatory history, Catherine Merridale uncovers the harrowing story of who these soldiers were, and how they lived and died during the war.

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