Dear, this is an attempt to review the above book, which is very far removed from the level of the memoirs of soviet marshals and generals. The rawness and directness of the text confirms that it is the memories of a participant of the fighting in the first line.
The author enlisted in 1941 at the age of 18 years and was deployed into the fighting on the northern section of the defense of Leningrad. Here the ongoing struggles marked the author as one of the bloodiest. The red army over two years in vain trying to break through the German blockade and all her accomplishments were vast numbers of the fallen and wounded soldiers.
The author describes the soviet leadership as reckless and cruel cynics who weren't problems with meaningless orders and for your convenience they send troops into senseless actions. Shooting into their own ranks was used throughout the war even when no decline in martial enthusiasm.
The author describes how his regiment was attacking a few weeks on a sort of hill, the daily losses were large and the combat readiness of the unit was maintained by sending additional troops from the rear, who took place after the fallen and the wounded. Those who against this "stand on meat" they had reservations, they were brought before military tribunals and often executed for a warning, or punished with loss of rank and transfer to disciplinary units (штрафной батальон). Such raw descriptions of inertia of the soviet command to the suffering of the troops, especially in the first years of the war, stated in the book multiple.
Author nepřibarvuje your memory even when describing the final period of the war, where the soviet troops managed to escape to German territory. Describes the treatment of the civilian population and describes the excesses which they had committed his colleagues. Alone with looting and raping did not participate. On the contrary, it is reported several cases where German civilians/civilian protect himself from ill will to be found of their colleagues. This period of his life considered to be one of the most difficult.
The author of the book hinted that his memories of writing as self-healing of their traumas from the war. Your memories wasn't going to disclose, because he was aware of the great differences from the official soviet work about the Great patriotic war and he was not going to expose the prosecution for its examination of the description of the soviet history.
The author's work, I consider it a testimony to the extraordinary strength and hope, that will affect the opinion of readers to the heroic efforts of the rank and file soldiers of the Red army during the second world war.
P. With. In my copy, I found the erroneous assignment of the parties to the individual chapters. Must be attributed to the +1..
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