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050 00 D764 |b.M395 2006
100 1  Merridale, Catherine, |d1959-
245 10 Ivan's war : |blife and death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 / |cCatherine Merridale.
264  1 New York : |bPicador : |bHenry Holt and Company, |c2006.
300    xii, 462 pages : |billustrations, maps ; |c21 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-439) and index.
505 0  True war stories -- Marching with revolutionary step -- A fire through all the world -- Disaster beats its wings -- Black ways of war -- Stone by stone -- A land laid waster -- May brotherhood be blessed -- Exulting, grieving, and sweating blood -- Despoil the corpse -- Sheathe the old sword -- And we remember all.
520    A narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources. The men and women of the Red Army, a ragtag mass of soldiers, confronted Europe's most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had defeated it. Sixty years have passed since their epic triumph, but the heart and mind of Ivan--as the ordinary Russian soldier was called--remain a mystery. We know something about how the soldiers died, but nearly nothing about how they lived, how they saw the world, or why they fought. Drawing on previously closed military and secret police archives, interviews with veterans, and private letters and diaries, Merridale presents the first comprehensive history of the Red Army rank and file, revealing the singular mixture of courage, patriotism, anger, and fear that made it possible for these underfed, badly led troops to defeat the Nazi army.--From publisher description.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 20 January 2012.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
610 10 Soviet Union. |bRaboche-Krestʹi͡anskai͡a Krasnai͡a Armii͡a |xHistory |yWorld War, 1939-1945.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xCampaigns |zEastern Front.
650  0 Soldiers |zSoviet Union |xSocial conditions |y20th century.
856 42  |3Sample text |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005050457-s.html
852 0   |bstacks |hD764 |i.M395 2006