From Stalingrad to Pillau a Red Army artillery officer remembers the Great Patriotic War /
"Stalingrad's outskirts provided Isaak Kobylyanskiy, a 19-year-old ethnic Jew from Ukraine, with his first exposure to combat and initiated his long odyssey in the Great Patriotic War against Germany. It would be more than three years before he was finally reunited with his family and his...
| Main Author: | Kobylyanskiy, Isaak, 1923- |
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| Other Authors: | Britton, Stuart. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
©2008.
Lawrence : [2008] |
| Physical Description: |
ix, 310 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Series: |
Modern war studies.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- I. A Teen on the Eve of War
- 1. Vinnitsa
- 2. Kiev
- II. The War
- 3. The War Begins
- 4. Three Months at a Military College and Seven Weeks in a Re-forming Division
- 5. The Beginning on the Volga's Left Bank
- 6. The Mius Front and the Donbas
- 7. The Path to the Dnieper River's Mouth
- 8. Fighting for the Crimea
- 9. In the First Baltic Front
- 10. Initial Months on the Enemy's Land
- 11. Some Fortunate Finds in East Prussia
- 12. The Fall of Konigsberg
- 13. Finally
- The Great Victory!
- III. Various Reflections on the War
- 14. An Important Factor in Our Victory
- 15. What War Taught Me
- 16. Letters from Afar
- 17. Sometimes We Marched in Our Sleep
- 18. Two More Bloodless Aspects of Our Daily Routine
- 19. Leisure at the Front
- 20. Ideological Pressure
- 21. A Jew at the Front: A Frank Discussion
- 22. Women of Our Rifle Regiment
- 23. The Germans: Recollections of My Feelings and Encounters
- IV. The War Ended but Life Went On
- 24. Three Postwar Months in East Prussia
- 25. My Discharge from the Army
- 26. My Return Home
- 27. Rejoin My Alma Mater
- 28. Our Young Family
- 29. Epilogue.