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Ivan's War: Life And Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 ペーパーバック – イラスト付き, 2007/1/23
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A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources.
Of the thirty million who fought in the eastern front of World War II, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the men and women of the Red Army, a ragtag mass of soldiers who confronted Europe's most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had defeated it. Sixty years have passed since their epic triumph, but the heart and mind of Ivan -- as the ordinary Russian soldier was called -- remain a mystery. We know something about hoe the soldiers died, but nearly nothing about how they lived, how they saw the world, or why they fought.
Drawing on previously closed military and secret police archives, interviews with veterans, and private letters and diaries, Catherine Merridale presents the first comprehensive history of the Soviet Union Army rank and file. She follows the soldiers from the shock of the German invasion to their costly triumph in Stalingrad, where life expectancy was often a mere twenty-four hours. Through the soldiers' eyes, we witness their victorious arrival in Berlin, where their rage and suffering exact an awful toll, and accompany them as they return home full of hope, only to be denied the new life they had been fighting to secure.
A tour de force of original research and a gripping history, Ivan's War reveals the singular mixture of courage, patriotism, anger, and fear that made it possible for these underfed, badly led troops to defeat the Nazi army. In the process Merridale restores to history the invisible millions who sacrificed the most to win the war.
- 本の長さ462ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社Picador USA
- 発売日2007/1/23
- 寸法13.84 x 2.16 x 20.83 cm
- ISBN-100312426526
- ISBN-13978-0312426521
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"Catherine Merridale has picked the locks that kept this history hidden. . . . Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of the time." --The Economist
"[A] breathtaking, sweeping, yet well-balanced and finely tuned study." --The Times Literary Supplement (London)
"With extraordinary patience and a wonderful ear for nuance . . . [Merridale] produces what may be the best historical portrait of life in the Red Army yet published." --The New York Review of Books
"Combines, quite effectively, painstaking historical reconstruction and sympathetic projection." --The New York Times
"[A] profoundly empathic work of history." --Newsday
"An impressive work of history, managing to give a sense of the amazing hardships of the frontoviki's experience." --The New York Sun
"Succeeds admirably in fashioning a compelling portrait, helped immensely by her talent as a writer." --Foreign Affairs
"[Merridale] does a marvelous job. Ivan's War is full of the type of information that will make you find someone to tell." --Richmond Times Dispatch
"This book is the raw and bleeding version . . . a tightly edited, well-paced and very readable account." --The Seattle Times"
"Unprecedented in its approach, Catherine Merridale's research into the lives of Red Army soldiers combined with her perception makes this a most fascinating and important work." --Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad
"Catherine Merridale has done something very unusual. The Soviet war effort has been described many times but her new book tells the searing story from the bottom up. Her account of the sufferings of the Red Army soldiers and their families is unlikely to be bettered." --Robert Service, author of Stalin: A Biography
"Merridale's new book is excellent. This unique, strikingly original account of the Red Army in World War II is a first-rate social history as well as an important military study, and a stellar example of the combination of oral history with standard archival research. It makes the soldiers of the Red Army come alive." --Stanley Payne, Hilldale-Jaume Vicens Vives Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Ivan's War is a marvelous book. All of Catherine Merridale's virtues are on display: remarkable research (based in this case on literally hundreds of interviews with survivors and witnesses); a clear, unpretentious style that belies the complexity of her material; comfortable historical command of a dauntingly large theme; and a rare compassion and empathy for her subjects. Ivan's War confirms what anyone who read Night of Stone already knew: that Catherine Merridale is a superb historian, among the very best of her generation." --Tony Judt, author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"This is an inventively researched and evocatively written study of the Soviet soldier on the blood-ridden Eastern Front. Using freshly available archival materials, as well as sparkling interviews with a vanishing generation of veterans, Merridale has provided an empathetic and realistic portrait of the men and women who, more than any other combat soldiers, brought down the Third Reich." --Norman M. Naimark, author of The Russians in Germany and Fires of Hatred
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Ivan's War
Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939--1945By Catherine MerridalePicador USA
Copyright © 2007 Catherine MerridaleAll right reserved.
ISBN: 9780312426521
It was Kamenshchikov’s wife who woke him.
Perhaps it was her inexperience, she said, but she had never heard so many planes flying above the town at night. Her husband assured her that what she was hearing were maneuvers. There had been lots of exercises lately. All the same he threw a coat over his shoulders and stepped outside to take a closer look. He knew at once that this was real war. The very air was different; humming, shattered, thick with sour black smoke. The town’s main railway line was picked out by a rope of flame. Even the horizon had begun to redden, but its glow, to the west, was not the approaching dawn. Acting without orders, Kamenshchikov went to the airfield and took a plane up to meet the invaders at once, which is why, exceptionally among the hundreds of machines that were parked in neat formations as usual that night, his was brought down over the Bialystok marshes, and not destroyed on the ground. By mid-day on June 22, the Soviets had lost 1,200 planes. In Kamenshchikov’s own western district alone, 528 had been blown up like fairground targets by the German guns.
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著者について
Catherine Merridale is the author of the critically acclaimed Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia. The professor of contemporary history at the University of London, she also writes for the London Review of Books, New Statesman, and the Independent.
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- 出版社 : Picador USA; Reprint版 (2007/1/23)
- 発売日 : 2007/1/23
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 462ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0312426526
- ISBN-13 : 978-0312426521
- 寸法 : 13.84 x 2.16 x 20.83 cm
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Right from the beginning you know that you are in for a treat as Merridale described the Red Army under Stalin. How they were a poor army, giving their soldiers cloth for socks, guns that were almost 50 years old and improper cold weather uniforms. This is all a background to the tempest of a life that the Russian soldier and citizen existed, always in fear of the eyes and ears of the ever so eager to admonish, discipline and, even, kill and kidnap those that said the slightest bit that could infer dissatisfaction with Stalin's Communist government. It was amazing to read how brutal they were in keeping everyone under their heels. The paranoia that was rampant with Stalin and his government ultimately led to the purge of the Russian military elite, which of course brought the Red Army to the low that would exist at the beginning of the war.
Of course a little known fact to the common person is that Russia took part in the opening acts of WWII - on the German side! We read how Germany invaded Poland and started WWII, but we don't read or recall too often that Russia, with its nonaggression pact, invaded Poland as well and split the country in half. In fact Russia was ruthless in its land grap in Finland and the Baltic States. For two years they were consolidating their borders, using WWII as an excuse to grow their country. This, of course, was ultimately led Hitler to invade Russia cause it saw how poor Russia's army was, so how could they stop the German War machine?
Merridale is at her best here as she shows the retreating Russian as they struggled to fight the Germans. Always pushing forward fearfully because the Russian officer's were behind them with the new machine guns ready to gun down any who tried to retreat. The Russian army was so decimated in 1941 that they had the option of attacking tanks with bayonets and rocks, or dying by the guns of their own comrades behind them. Life in the Red Army was tough as millions were fed to the meat grinder. Eventually the tide turned and the Red Army slowly became a lean fighting machine. Just as the Japanese woke a sleeping giant, so too did Hitler. The books value is seeing the comparisons that are drawn between the Germans and the Russians. Both had evil rulers. Both used their propaganda machines heavily, outright lying in order to shape how they saw the war was going. The comparison of the Germans in Russia with the Russians in Germany (this was appalling to see the downright evil that men in war with power thrust upon them could come to, from both sides). The brutal treatment of POWs.
In the end I was shocked by the Red Army because they were governed by Stalin's Communism. Russian soldiers who were captured and put into POW camps weren't liberated, but instead transferred to another prison on Russian soil and treated as traitors to their country. Invalids as a result of the war were shunned and eventually herded off to an island to rid their presence. High ranking officials, such as Zhukov, were demoted or imprisoned after the war. Whole races were shipped off to prison and labor camps to die of starvation and exhaustion. Communist Russia was not an honorable country, but rather one that was as corrupt as its leader. If Hitler would have never attacked Russia I wonder if the allies would have invaded Russia as well to depose Stalin. As is he was a sometime ally and was able to maintain his sovereignty.
A fantastic account of life and death in the Red Army and a must read.
5 stars.