Those who enjoy the Soviet experience from the safety of an armchair, be it through the fantasy of books like mine or the extensively researched accounts by real scholars, might be interested in this one, reviewed in the New York Times today (link also down on right, where I’ve installed a NYT Books feed). Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale deals with…
…well, you don’t have to be a genius to interpret that title.
No matter how bad American soldiers had it in World War II, Russians had it worse, from start to finish.