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Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939--1945
Ivan's War Life and Death in the Red Army 19391945
Author: Catherine Merridale
They died in vast numbers, eight million men and women driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the soldiers of the Red Army, an exhausted mass of recruits who confronted Europe's most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had defeated it. For sixty years, their experiences were suppressed, replaced by patr...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780312426521
ISBN-10: 0312426526
Publication Date: 1/23/2007
Pages: 480
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Publisher: Picador
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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hardtack avatar reviewed Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939--1945 on + 2700 more book reviews
Twenty-seven million Soviet citizens died in World War II. This is not so much a testament to their valor against the Nazi terror, as it was to the stupidity and brutality of the Communist system.

How such a valiant people could bear such a burden and then be betrayed in the end by their own leadership is what may be he vilest crime against humanity in the history of the world.

The author does a tremendous job defining the Soviet scarifice.


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