Ivan's war : life and death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 / Catherine Merridale.
Merridale, Catherine, 1959-
2007
D764 .M395 2007 (Mapit)
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Title Ivan's war : life and death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 / Catherine Merridale.
Author Merridale, Catherine, 1959-
Edition 1st Picador ed.
ISBN 9780312426521 (pbk.)
0312426526 (pbk.)
Publication Details New York : Picador ; Henry Holt and Company, 2007.
Language English
Description xii, 462 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number D764 .M395 2007
Summary 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, interviews with veterans, and private letters and diaries, Merridale presents the first comprehensive history of the Red Army rank and file, revealing the singular mixture of courage, patriotism, anger, and fear that made it possible for these underfed, badly led troops to defeat the Nazi army.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-439) and index.
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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.

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