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Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier´s War on the Eastern Front 1942-1945
Boris Gorbachevsky
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Description for Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier´s War on the Eastern Front 1942-1945
Paperback. A junior officer in the Red Army provides one of the richest and most detailed memoirs of life and warfare on the Eastern Front, from his combat training in early 1942 until the surrender and occupation of Germany. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 630.
The monumental battles of World War II's Eastern Front—Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk—are etched into the historical record. But there is another, hidden history of that war that has too often been ignored in official accounts.
Boris Gorbachevsky was a junior officer in the 31st Army who first saw front-line duty as a rifleman in the 30th Army. Through the Maelstrom recounts his three harrowing years on some of the war's grimmest but forgotten battlefields: the campaign for Rzhev, the bloody struggle to retake Belorussia, and the bitter final fighting in East Prussia. As he traces his experiences from his ... Read more
The monumental battles of World War II's Eastern Front—Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk—are etched into the historical record. But there is another, hidden history of that war that has too often been ignored in official accounts.
Boris Gorbachevsky was a junior officer in the 31st Army who first saw front-line duty as a rifleman in the 30th Army. Through the Maelstrom recounts his three harrowing years on some of the war's grimmest but forgotten battlefields: the campaign for Rzhev, the bloody struggle to retake Belorussia, and the bitter final fighting in East Prussia. As he traces his experiences from his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Modern War Studies
Condition
New
Weight
686g
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700621071
SKU
V9780700621071
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About Boris Gorbachevsky
Boris Gorbachevsky worked for forty years as a professor, journalist, and editor in Russia before emigrating to the United States in 1994. He previously published the monthly Russian-language journal Vestnik Rod-Ailenda (Rhode Island Herald).
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