TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bogachev,Boris
AU  - Bogacheva,Maria
TI  - For the motherland! For Stalin!: a Red Army officer's memoir of the Eastern Front 
SN  - 9781849047975 (hbk.) :
AV  - D764 
U1  - 940.5421 BOG 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Hurst & Company
KW  - Bogachev, Boris.
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Eastern Front
KW  - Personal narratives, Russian
KW  - Warfare and Defence
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Translated from the Russian
N2  - Boris Bogachev's highly readable account of life as a young platoon commander during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 makes for a fascinating read. The son of a Soviet military commissar, Bogachev volunteered to fight as soon as reached the age of seventeen. Life in the Red Army was harsh, with food shortages, inadequate equipment and fear - not only of the well-armed enemy ahead, but also of the trigger-happy political officers behind. Bogachev fought in many campaigns throughout the war, including the 15-month Rzhev salient 'meat-grinder' which resulted in huge Soviet losses. On three occasions he was threatened with execution. Three times he was wounded. Determined and resourceful, he managed to obtain papers authorizing him to have his wounds treated in hospital, but instead smuggled himself aboard a train to travel across Russia to visit his family in Kazakhstan before returning to the front
ER  -