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This is an excellent work giving real insight into the emotions & motivations of the rank & file Russian infantryman. It takes you right into the hopes and fears of a previously neglected and mysterious soldier. It humanizes that seething mass of humanity who walked the bloodstained path from the terrible defeats of 1941 to the bloodsoaked victories from Kursk onwards. It's not te same type of work as Beevor's "Stalingrad" or Hasting's "The Last Battle",buty in it's own way is equally pivotal in understanding a collective who changed history. Merridale has researched in great detail and laid out her findings in a gripping and easy to understand account of soldiers that were once dehumanized by our lack of familiarity with them. "Ivan" will become as real to the reader as the men of the 101st Airborne, The Big Red One, The Rangers and The Rag Tag Circus. We already have profound respect for men like Zhukov, Rokossovskiy, Konev & Vasilievskiy, and now we know about the men and women they lead.
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Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939--1945 by Catherine Merridale
gknenahoro, January 23, 2007
This is an excellent work giving real insight into the emotions & motivations of the rank & file Russian infantryman. It takes you right into the hopes and fears of a previously neglected and mysterious soldier. It humanizes that seething mass of humanity who walked the bloodstained path from the terrible defeats of 1941 to the bloodsoaked victories from Kursk onwards. It's not te same type of work as Beevor's "Stalingrad" or Hasting's "The Last Battle",buty in it's own way is equally pivotal in understanding a collective who changed history. Merridale has researched in great detail and laid out her findings in a gripping and easy to understand account of soldiers that were once dehumanized by our lack of familiarity with them. "Ivan" will become as real to the reader as the men of the 101st Airborne, The Big Red One, The Rangers and The Rag Tag Circus. We already have profound respect for men like Zhukov, Rokossovskiy, Konev & Vasilievskiy, and now we know about the men and women they lead.(17 of 31 readers found this comment helpful)