800 days on the Eastern Front : a Russian soldier remembers World War II / Nikolai Litvin ; translated and edited by Stuart Britton.

Includes bibliographical reference (page 153) and index.

Chapter 1: I Become an Airborne Soldier --The Outbreak of War -- I Volunteer for the Airborne -- The Northwestern Front: Demiansk and Staraia Rusa -- Chapter 2: Kursk -- Defensive Preparations -- The Battle Begins and My Wounding -- Chapter 3: Pursuit -- Operation Kutuzov -- Drive to the Dnepr River -- Gaivoron -- Crossing the Dnepr River -- Chapter 4: I Become a Chauffeur -- A Close Call -- The Sudden Death of a Comrade -- At the Repair Station -- My Second Wounding and Another Transfer -- Chapter 5: Operation Bagration -- My Violation of Duty and Punishment -- Operation Bagration Begins -- We Lead the Attack on Parichi -- Slaughter at Bobruisk -- Chapter 6: Into Poland with the 354th Rifle Division -- An Unwanted Duty -- Transferred Again -- Kleshcheli and Avgustinka -- The Narev Bridgehead -- The Counterattack on the Narev -- Major Chirkin Intercedes -- With the 354th Rifle Division's Commander, V. N. Dzhandzhgava -- Chapter 7: The Final Offensive -- Forward! -- At the Animal Husbandry Farm -- Graudenz and the Vistula -- At the Count's Estate -- To Danzig -- The Destruction of the East Prussian Group -- To Stettin -- The Final Assault Begins The War's End -- My Arrest and Postwar Life