One Soldier's War
Contributors: Nick Allen (Translator)
Publisher: Grove Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: January 21, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780802118608
Subjects: Military Personal Narratives; History; History - General History; History - Military / War; History: World; Europe - Former Soviet Republics; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Military - General; History / Former Soviet Republics; Military; Military - Other; Babchenko, Arkadiæi; Chechnëiìa (Russia); Civil War, 1994-; Personal narratives; Personal narratives, Russian
Description: A young Russian soldier offers a harrowing chronicle of his experiences in the Chechen wars that captures the fear, chaos, hardship, drudgery, and brutality of modern warfare, documenting his personal odyssey from naïve, teenage conscript to battle-hardened soldier.