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Babchenko, Arkady

 
9780802118608: One Soldier's War
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ISBN 10: 0802118607 ISBN 13: 9780802118608
Editorial: Grove Press, 2008

Sinopsis

<div> <i>One Soldier&#8217;s War</i> is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier&#8217;s experience in the Chechen wars that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. An excerpt of the book was hailed by Tibor Fisher in the <i>Guardian</i> as &#147;right up there with <i>Catch-22</i> and Michael Herr&#8217;s <i>Dispatches</i> ,&#8221; and the book won Russia&#8217;s inaugural Debut Prize, which recognizes authors who write &#147;despite, not because of, their life circumstances.&#8221; In 1995, Arkady Babchenko was an eighteen-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Chechnya. It was the beginning of a torturous journey from na&#239;ve conscript to hardened soldier that took Babchenko from the front lines of the first Chechen War in 1995 to the second in 1999. He fought in major cities and tiny hamlets, from the bombed-out streets of Grozny to anonymous mountain villages. Babchenko takes the raw and mundane realities of war&#151;the constant cold, hunger, exhaustion, filth, and terror&#151;and twists it into compelling, haunting, and eerily elegant prose. Acclaimed by reviewers around the world, this is a devastating first-person account of war by an extraordinary storyteller.</div>

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A young Russian soldier offers a harrowing chronicle of his experiences in the Chechen wars that captures the fear, chaos, hardship, drudgery, and brutality of modern warfare, documenting his personal odyssey from naïve, teenage conscript to battle-hardened soldier.

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Editorial
Grove Press
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0802118607
ISBN 13 
9780802118608
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
432
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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Editorial: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly P..., 2009
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