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Anonymous Sun Dec 12 18:48:02 2010 No.1354575 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any books written from Soviet commander's in same vein as Patton's War as I Knew It?

Or at least some kind of people's history of Nazi push on Soviet Union. I've been taking European history and now that it's closing up I'm really enamored by the tenacity of Soviets. The whole Guerrilla warfare, like the use of anti-tank dogs who had bombs strapped to their back and taught to run under tanks detonating the bomb or calvary units used for surprise attacks on infantry.

Any of you guys know of a book written from any Russian's perspective that's been translated? Many German accounts of Eastern front have been published but I have yet to find any Russian accounts of the war.

I'm assuming since this is seen as great patriotic was by Soviets that they would have many books on subject but Amazon has been a failure to me, only two books by Richard Overy seem to focus on the Russian side but that is from an Americans perspective, I'm looking for Russian perspective.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 12 19:20:02 2010 No.1354646 Bump. I am also interested.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 12 19:23:02 2010 No.1354653 >Soviet military personnel. >Literacy. >time to jot down thoughts while you're being alternately threatened by the enemy and your superiors. Yeah...

>>	Plethon !!3pYHIvciyZE Sun Dec 12 19:25:02 2010 No.1354657 "Through the Maelstrom" and "800 Days on the Eastern Front".

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Anonymous Sun Dec 12 19:25:02 2010 No.1354659

>>1354575

The only book I know about the Eastern Front from the Russian prospective is 900 days, The siege of lenningrad...it was banned in U.S.S.R.

http://www.amazon.com/900-Days-Siege-Leningrad/dp/0306812983

Also, try Enemy at the Gates (from what I heard nothing like the movie).

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Plethon !!3pYHIvciyZE Sun Dec 12 19:26:02 2010 No.1354661

>>1354657

Wait, those are common soldiers. Nothing from high commanders. Telling the truth in those matters would have been politically inexpedient, anyhow, so I imagine any memoirs from them would have been worthless unless left unpublished.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 12 19:32:02 2010 No.1354679 >>1354661 No those will serve me great, that's what I'm looking for. I looked all through Amazon and couldn't find anything from Russian's account.

>>	Plethon !!3pYHIvciyZE Sun Dec 12 19:35:02 2010 No.1354686 >>1354679 Glad I could help, then. I wish Solzhenitsyn had written a memoir of his time on the Eastern Front.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 12 19:57:02 2010 No.1354728 >>1354659 >Also, try Enemy at the Gates (from what I heard nothing like the movie). Well yeah, because the book was a general history about the Battle of Stalingrad whereas the movie turned it into the (largely dubious) story about Zaitsev and König.

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Anonymous Sun Dec 12 19:57:02 2010 No.1354730

>>1354686
That would be something, I wonder if he would feel publishing memoirs like that would seem unpatriotic though. Even with the gulags he remained patriotic to Russia even after his exile.

This is another reason I want to read about their accounts.

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Plethon !!3pYHIvciyZE Sun Dec 12 20:05:02 2010 No.1354757

>>1354730

My guess is that he was mostly overcome with other interests. A side–phenomenon might have been his sympathy, after the fact (it is evident in The Gulag Archipelago) for those Russians and (as he would have called them) "Little Russians" who sided with the Germans against the Soviets.

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Anonymous Mon Dec 13 08:36:02 2010 No.1356054
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Such books exist, but more contemporary works, which will take advantage of research into recently declassified archives (Anthony Beevor is win) are probably better. The Kremlin of course took a dim view of self-aggrandizement by popular military officers, and preferred to give the people one official record of events.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 12:19:02 2010 No.1356238 >>1356054 OP here, I guess what I was asking for more was a "peoples history". I am looking more for just overall Russian perspective of WWII.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 12:23:02 2010 No.1356246 CHECK OUT LIFE AND FATE, PRETTY FUCKING AWESOME. NO NEED TO THANK ME.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 12:42:02 2010 No.1356270 http://www.amazon.com/NOTES-RUSSIAN-SNIPER-Vassili-Zaitsev/dp/1848325657/ref=pd_sim_b_79 ^try this OP