Guns against the Reich : memoirs of an artillery officer on the Eastern Front / Petr Mikhin ; translator Bair Irincheev ; English text Stuart Britton.

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pt. 1. The Rzhev meat-grinder. Prologue : training is hard -- Rzhev -- Die, but don't retreat! -- The slaughter at Rzhev -- pt. 2. From Stalingrad to the Western border -- From Starobelsk to the Donbus -- Encircled! -- Kursk -- On the heels of the enemy -- On defense along the Ingulets River -- The spring offensive -- Bridgehead on the Dnestr -- Despair -- My heroic crews! -- pt. 3. Here it is, Eastern Europe! Romania, Bulgaria, Yogoslavia -- Command problems -- The liberation of Hungary -- Austria and Czechoslovakia.

"In three years of war on the Eastern Front -- from the desperate defence of Moscow, through the epic struggles at Stalingrad and Kursk to the final offensives in central Europe -- artilleryman Petr Mikhin experienced the full horror of battle. In this vivid memoir, he recalls distant but deadly duels with German guns, close-quarter hand-to-hand combat, and murderous mortar and tank attacks, and he remembers the pity of defeat and the grief that accompanied victories that cost of thousands of lives. He was wounded and shell-shocked, he saw his comrades killed and was nearly captured, and he was threatened with the disgrace of a court martial. For years, he lived with the constant strain of combat and the ever-present possibility of death. And he recalls his experiences with a candour and an immediacy that brings the war on the Eastern Front -- a war of immense scale and intensity -- dramatically to life"--Jacket

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