Malcolm Grow's commentary presents us with a fascinating personal account of wartime experience, one that highlights a number of pertinent issues of Russia's experience of total war. While military historiography is replete with studies of battle plans and strategies, troop movements, numbers of casualties, territorial gains, and decisions of state actors, war is so much more than these, as a fundamentally human experience. Unlike most other foreigners' accounts of Russia's war, written by journalists, diplomats, or civilian observers who spent little, if any, time at the ""front,"" Grow's narrative provides a firsthand perspective of someone embedded with the Russian troops. Although his primary duty as a regimental doctor was medical care of wounded and ill soldiers, Grow's narrative focuses much attention on combat, particularly his experiences observing operations from the trenches-even occasionally being drawn into the fighting.
Introduction by:
Laurie S. Stoff Edited by:
Laurie S. Stoff Imprint: Anthem Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 153mm,
Spine: 11mm
Weight: 248g ISBN:9781839997334 ISBN 10: 1839997338 Series:Anthem Americans in Revolutionary Russia Pages: 178 Publication Date:02 December 2025 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Dr. Laurie S. Stoff is a specialist in Russian and East European history, women's and gender studies, and the history of war and society, with an MA and PhD in History from the University of Kansas