Ivan's War

Resumen del libro

They died in vast numbers, eight million men and women driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the soldiers of the Red Army, an exhausted mass of recruits who confronted Europe's most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had defeated it. For sixty years, their experiences were suppressed, replaced by patriotic propaganda. We know how the soldiers died, but nearly nothing about how they lived, how they saw the world, or why they fought.

Biografía del autor

Catherine Merridale es profesora de Historia Contemporánea en la Queen Mary University de Londres. Es autora de Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia que fue galardonado con el Heinemann Prize for Literature y candidato al Samuel Johnson Prize, Ivan" s War: The Red Army, 1939-45 y Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia" s History, que ganó el Wolfson Prize for History y el Pushkin House Russian Book Prize. Es miembro de la Academia Británica.