This book is unique. Since the Red Army was forbidden to keep diaries, such front -line recordings were the greatest rarity, especially related to the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Most military memoirs were composed many years after its end, when the events had already faded or completely erased from the memory of veterans – but Vasily Vasilievich Churkin wrote on the advanced “in real time”, in small notebooks, which are easy to hide in the breast pocket of the gymnastics. And since these mean tasteless notes were not intended for prying eyes, especially for printing, he was not constrained by ideological prohibitions and kept a diary without looking at military censorship. This is a genuine, one hundred percent, unauthorized “trench truth” to the Great Patriotic War. These are the priceless evidence of the ordinary Russian soldier who passed the war “from the call to the call”, from the summer of 1941 to the 45th year, who miraculously survived in the front -line hell, but lost his entire family – his wife and younger sister died from starvation in blockade …
Author
Churkin Vasily Vasilievich
Editor
Nazvinskaya L.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2013
Series
Winners. Front memoirs
Genre
The history of the USSR
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