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Article: 800 Days on the Eastern Front.(Book review)
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- Military Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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800 DAYS ON THE EASTERN FRONT, Nikolai Litvin, Stuart Britton trans. and ed., University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2007, 159 pages, $24.95. RED PARTISAN: The Memoir of a Soviet Resistance Fighter on the Eastern Front, Nikolai I. Obryn'ba, Potomac Books, Dulles, VA, 2007, 256 pages, $26.95.
When studying the struggle between the Soviets and the Germans on the Eastern Front, it is all too easy to get lost in the titanic size and scope of the conflict. Personal and individual experiences of the war tend to be lost in the sweep of fronts and army groups. In the Soviet case, this submersion of first-hand accounts has been exacerbated by language barriers, state ...