Ivan's War by Catherine Merridale
Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
A searing, intimate portrait of ordinary Soviet soldiers on the Eastern Front based on letters, diaries and interviews, showing how peasants and conscripts coped with extreme violence, hunger and fear; it traces how patriotism, coercion, hatred of the enemy and the brutality of the Stalinist system combined to produce acts of endurance, camaraderie, moral compromise and atrocity, revealing the human costs and everyday realities behind mass mobilization and victory.
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- 2006
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