One soldier's war
(2007, original release: 2006)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
947.52086/BABCHENKO,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Grove Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2007
©2006
©2006
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION
xii, 395 pages : maps ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780802118608, 0802118607
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"First published in Great Britain in 2007 by Portobello Books, Ltd., with the title, One soldier's war in Chechnya. Individual chapters were first published in Russian literary journals during 2003-2006 and then in book form by Exmo in 2006." -- Title page verso. Preface, April 2007. (p. xii)
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