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The damned and the dead : the Eastern Front through the eyes of Soviet and Russian novelists /

"The confrontation between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army on the Eastern Front of World War II was defined by incalculable suffering, destruction, casualties, and heroism. While many historians have chronicled the epic nature of that arena of war, it has largely been left to Russian novelists t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ellis, Frank, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, ©2011.
Colección:Modern war studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The sword and the pen : an overview of war literature
  • Return from the front : the veterans dissent
  • Traitors, wolves, and infernal cold : the war stories of Vasil' Bykov
  • The imperium ripostes : the return of the Vozhd'
  • The hinge of fate : the Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet-Russian war literature
  • NKVD reports from Stalingrad, 1942-1943 : blocking detachments, deserters, executions, and morale
  • The Russian war novel of the 1990s : a final reckoning?
  • Afterword
  • Appendix A: Order of the headquarters of the Supreme Command of the Red Army, 270, 16th August 1941
  • Appendix B: Order of the People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR, 227, 28th July 1942
  • Appendix C: Statute concerning the main counter-intelligence directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defence ("SMERSH") and its agencies in the provinces, 21st April 1943.