TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mikhin,Petr
AU  - Irincheev,Bair
AU  - Britton,Stuart
TI  - Guns against the Reich: memoirs of an artillery officer on the Eastern Front 
SN  - 9781844681525
AV  - D811 .M5413 2010eb
U1  - 940.54217092 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Barnsley
PB  - Pen & Sword Military
KW  - Mikhin, Petr.
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Eastern Front
KW  - Personal narratives, Russian
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
KW  - Campagnes et batailles
KW  - Front oriental
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Military
KW  - World War II
KW  - Military campaigns
KW  - fast
KW  - Eastern Front (World War (1939-1945))
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Personal Narrative
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - Russian
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
KW  - Récits personnels
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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