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09-10-2018 07:46 PM
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Thanks for your advice Marcel! I'll think I'll order the book you mentioned. Do you know perhaps if "On the Road to Stalingrad: Memoirs of a Woman Machine Gunner" by Zoya Matveyevna Smirnova-Medvedeva is a good read as well?
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I have some 30-35 Soviet memoirs now, some which are good and interesting and some less interesting (dull written or perhaps lost in translation). This one I unfortunately have not....yet haha. Will go after it right away. Thanks for bringing this one to my attention!
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"Over fields of fire" and "On the Road to Stalingrad"...
Just might have a go at both of them..
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I just ordered the two books (tip: do not buy at Amazon, they are way too expensive...try Biblio).
Sounds like you have a great collection of memoirs Marcel! I have about ten at this moment, but I try to buy one every month. They are very addictive to read! Some books I finish in a day...
Do you have more interesting titles to share? Or maybe we should start a thread dedicated tot Soviet memoirs?
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Here's a few I really enjoyed recently:
Red Star under the Baltic - Victor Korzh
Red Army sniper - Yevgeni Nikolaev
From Leningrad to Hungary - Evgenii D. Moniushko
Red Partisan - Nikolai I Obryn'ba
Red Star against the swastika - Vasily B. Emilianenko
On the roads of war - Ivan Yakushin
For more titles I have to check my bookshelves again but these above are a very enjoyable start
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I met a former Soviet woman soldier who served in a machine gun and anti tank role. Great answers provided by other forum members - well done! NH
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For those interested in online memoirs; Artem Drabkin, author of many memoirs collected on this website many stories from veterans. Very interesting reading material for those who can't get enough
Link: I REMEMBER - I REMEMBER
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Marcel Banziger
Here's a few I really enjoyed recently:
Red Star under the Baltic - Victor Korzh
Red Army sniper - Yevgeni Nikolaev
From Leningrad to Hungary - Evgenii D. Moniushko
Red Partisan - Nikolai I Obryn'ba
Red Star against the swastika - Vasily B. Emilianenko
On the roads of war - Ivan Yakushin
For more titles I have to check my bookshelves again but these above are a very enjoyable start
Thanks! Sounds like a good start indeed.
I just finished Yakushin's book recently, which was very interesting and enjoyable. Especially to read that the only equipment he had was a mapcase in which he kept his gun .
The website you mentioned looks very interesting as well.
Think I'll have enough to read for the coming months
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Since we've been compiling some worthwile memoirs some time ago here's another VERY good one: Red sniper on the eastern front by Joseph Pilyushin. It is for me personally among the better memoirs. You're really dragged into the story, like being there yourself. Highly recommendable!!
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