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 Gorbachevsky, Boris, edited by Stuart Britton
Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front, 1942-1945
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008
Binding: Hardcover Pages: xix +453 
See also more books on the same topic(s):
Russo-German War, 1941-1945: Biographies and memoirs
Soviet Union: Biographies and memoirs of soldiers Feedback from visitors Feedback from Jim jones on Monday, 5 January 2009 Rates this book:  Through the Malestrom is what the Accounts of WWII are missing, the Russian soldiers side of WWII. After training the author was assigned to a rifle company, then they were to attack a German held village, the attack was the prescribed method of attack that commanders had to use at that time, each attacking formation was to charge the German Position , in a civil war type line abreast formation, although each line kept their interval until the next rank was ordered forward, the author was 1 of 8 out ofhis outfit to survive this first combat trial.
Readers that are expecting an account similar to:
E B Sledge - With the Old Breed
W Foley - Visions from a foxhole
G Sajer - The Forgotten Soldier
will find that Through the Malestrom isnot a day by day infantry account, as the author becomes a training and morale officer shortly after his first combat trial-
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