(H/B) FOR THE MOTHERLAND! FOR STALIN!

Παρουσίαση

For the Motherland! is an absorbingly frank portrait of a Red Army officer's hellish yet heroic experience on the Eastern Front, and of the wide gap between ideology and reality in Stalinist Russia.
Determined and resourceful, Boris Bogachev enlisted as soon as he turned seventeen. Life in the Red Army was harsh, with food shortages, inadequate equipment and fear - of the well-armed and formidably well trained Wehrmacht, but also of the trigger-happy NKVD political commissars at his back. Bogachev fought in many campaigns. He was wounded three times, and faced execution three times.
Bogachev retired in 1985, a much-decorated colonel, but was also involved as a military lawyer in rehabilitating the victims of the Great Terror. His vivid memoir of life as a young officer in the Great Patriotic War is both a riveting tale of hardship and courage and an invaluable historical account. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Author's preface
1941 1. Evacuation to Gumyonka
2. Joining the Army 1942
3. Training in Bukhara
4. To the Kalinin Front
5. The Front near Rzhev
6. My First Battle
7. The First Wound
8. My Thoughts on Rzhev
9. The Mortar Regiment at Vyshny Volochyok 1943
10. The North-Western Front near Kholm
11. The Second Wound
12. In the Rear in Tashkent 1944
13. How I joined the Sappers
14. Advancing into Poland
15. The Battle of Gorokhov
16. The Vistula Operation
17. Sandomierz
18. In the Rear in Poland 1945
19. Mine-laying in Poland
20. A Tank Rider of the 1st Ukrainian Front
21. The Advance into Germany
22. Soldier Sidametov
23. The End is Near
24. VICTORY!
25. Victory in Moscow - Nina's Story
26. After the War
27. My Illegal Trip to Austria 1946
28. The Elections to the Supreme Soviet
29. The Military Law Academy
Appendix I: Tank Crew Vladimir Khlitsov
Appendix II: Hurray for Dogs!
Appendix III: The Heroes of the 16th Assault Rava Russkaya Brigade
Appendix IV: Soviet and Russian Expansionism