Ivan's War: The Red Army at War 1939-45 - Brossura

Merridale, Catherine

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571218091 ISBN 13: 9780571218097

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2006

Riassunto

'Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.' Antony Beevor, Sunday Times They died in their millions, shattered by German shells and tanks, freezing behind the wire of prison camps, driven forward in suicidal charges by the secret police. Yet in all the books about the Second World War on the eastern front, there is very little about how the Russian soldier lived, dreamed and died. Catherine Merridale's discovery of archives of letters, diaries and police reports have allowed her to write a major history of a figure too often treated as part of a vast mechanical horde. Here are moving and terrible stories of men and women in appalling conditions, many not far from death. They allow us to understand the strange mixture of courage, patriotism, anger and fear that made it possible for these badly fed, dreadfully governed soldiers to defeat the Nazi army that would otherwise have enslaved the whole of Europe. The experience of the soldiers is set against a masterly narrative of the war in Russia. Merridale also shows how the veterans were treated with chilling ingratitude and brutality by Stalin, and later exploited as icons of the Great Patriotic War before being sidelined once more in Putin's new capitalist Russia.

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Descrizione del libro:

Ivan's War: The Red Army at War 1939-45 by Catherine Merridale is a powerful and groundbreaking examination of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, on the eastern front of World War II.

L'autore:

Catherine Merridale is an award-winning writer and historian. She is the author of several books, including Ivan's War and Night of Stone, described by Misha Glenny as 'an epic and moving history' and by Anthony Beevor as 'an original and intriguing study of death in Russia'. Her most recent book, Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History, won the Wolfson History Prize in 2014. She is Professor of History at Queen Mary College, London.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0571218091
• ISBN 13: 9780571218097
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416