Catch Hold Of Guns Against The Reich: Memoirs Of An Artillery Officer On The Eastern Front Scripted By Petr Mikhin Ready In Copy

of best kind of soldier that soviet could ever has, Good, experience, honest, soldier that his people loved,

After studying mathematics and harsh, fastpaced artillery training, Is leading artillery at the war front for many war years,

With his very accurate artillery barrage saves many of infantry units,
However there has been moments that his life was in danger because of NKVD people to whom, one has to prove total innocence, with no room for NKVD predictions, that always lead to guilt.


These like him were the factor of winning, I have impression that author is so tough like made out of steel, so well doing, like steel part.
And yet, as best type of leader, friend, a example of human being,

Dealing with alcoholic subordinate who has been degraded from office department to destroyingout ofGerman tanks when command office though, there has been no more thentanks.


And this book is also good overall picture with details like, that Germans has good food, always some food provision, and has lice in their trenches,on themselves and everywhere.
Fantastic. This is a good if not great memoir, The author was a mathematics student in Leningrad when drafted to serve as a gunnery officer in the wake of theGerman invasion, He served on the Leningrad front, at Kursk and its aftermath in, and in the battles across the Ukraine in,

Several points made an impression on me:The Red Army soldiers were often amazed at the lavishness of food and material that they found in captured German positions smoked sausages, large quantities of ammunition, clothing, etc.
which contrasted with their own meager suppliesI had not appreciated to what degree the forward artillery observers were exposed to danger, The author who commanded a battery frequently had to cross "no man's land" under harrowing

circumstances to reach a suitable place from which to watch the German positions and direct artillery fire.
I previously had the general impression that to be an artilleryman was much safer than being a front line infantryman, but this memoir opened my eyesFinally, it is clear that the Soviet troops operated under amazingly primitive conditions.
The author recounts that for one late winter night river crossing in, the Red Army infantry simply tossed logs into the freezing water, leapt in after them, and kicked their way across the river while clinging to the logs, all in face of heavy German fire.


I'd recommend this for any reader interested in the Eastern Theater, War is often depicted as a dehumanized event with the true heroes stories often left untold, This was a journal of a Russian captain who fought without training ,with the constant fear of not only being killed by the Germans, but of being killed by his own fellow soldiers.
With a compassion for his fellow man and the Communist Party 's rationale for killing its own people without mercy, this soldier fought from Moscow to Czech.
Lost later in the Kremlin's politics, he went back without any real acknowledgment for his courage and strength,

Great read if you are interested in Russian military practices in the WWII, In three years of war on the Eastern Frontfrom the desperate defense of Moscow, through the epic struggles at Stalingrad and Kursk to the final offensives in central Europeartilleryman Petr Mikhin experienced the full horror of battle.
In this vivid memoir he recalls distant but deadly duels with German guns, closequarter handtohand combat, and murderous mortar and tank attacks, and he remembers the pity of defeat and the grief that accompanied victories that cost thousands of lives.
He was wounded and shellshocked, he saw his comrades killed and was nearly captured, and he was threatened with the disgrace of a court martial.
For years he lived with the constant strain of combat and the everpresent possibility of death, Mikhin recalls his experiences with a candor and an immediacy that brings the war on the Eastern Fronta war of immense scale and intensitydramatically to life.
REVIEWS Absorbing and easy to read written with humor, Soldier Magazine,/a very valuable picture of life in the Red Army during four years of intense nonstop fighting against a determined and skilled enemy.
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