On The Eastern Front At Seventeen' An excerpt from a newly translated memoir of a Red Army soldier who just managed to survive the German attack into the Caucasus in August 1942
On The Eastern Front At Seventeen' An excerpt from a newly translated memoir of a Red Army soldier who just managed to survive the German attack into the Caucasus in August 1942 Just translated and published in English for the first time is On The Eastern Front At Seventeen. This is a fresh and immediate memoir of the experiences of a young man suddenly thrust into service with the Red Army. With no military training he very soon experiences the ruthlessness of Soviet discipline, the horrors of combat - where so many of his comrades were killed only days after joining up - and appalling treatment as a POW of the Germans. He managed to escape and vividly describes life in the Red Army up to 1944 when he was wounded. Sergey Drobyazko lived in the city of Krasnodar on the banks of the Kuban river in the northern Caucasus. He had just left school and was working in a weapons factory in August 1942 when it became apparent that the German offensive of 1942 was headed their way. His gener...