Love and War: An American Volunteer in the Soviet Red Army
Автор:M J Nicholas Год: 2009 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 298 ISBN: 1439237972 True story of how history drives an American-born youth to volunteer in the Soviet Red Army during World War II and how real love finds him even in the midst of war. M J Nicholas recalls his childhood in Pennsylvania, his family’s struggle in the Great Depression and their move in the ‘30s to Ukraine. When Nazi Germany invades the USSR, Nicholas is just 16. Determined to do his part, he gets himself to the front lines. Based on detailed notebooks he kept at the time, Nicholas tells of daily life in the Soviet army and the gut-wrenching horror of the battlefield. Seriously wounded in history’s biggest tank battle at Kursk, he awakens in a field hospital gazing into the “dark eyes of a charming medical second lieutenant.” As this determined young woman nurses him back from near death, they fall under the spell of a fervent first love. From his unique perspective as an American volunteer in the Soviet Red Army, Nicholas offers an unforgettable journey to a nearly forgotten time and place.
