UBC: Ivan's War

Merridale, Catherine. Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945. New York: Picador-Henry Holt and Co., 2007.


This book makes a good pairing with Hitler's Army , which is about German soldiers on the Eastern Front, and in another direction, a good pairing with The Gulag Archipelago , since it is from that same front that Solzhenitsyn began his journey into the strange and desolate archipelago he writes of, and Merridale provides context for the world which he left.

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Published on January 09, 2010 19:39
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