
One Soldier's War
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Derek Perkins
One Soldier's War is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier'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 Guardian as right up there with Catch-22 and Michael Herr's Dispatches, and the book won Russia's inaugural Debut Prize, which recognizes authors who write despite, not because of, their life circumstances.
In 1995 Arkady Babchenko was an 18-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 naïve 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 - the constant cold, hunger, exhaustion, filth, and terror - and twists them 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.
©2006 Arkady Babchenko. Translation copyright 2007 by Nick Allen. Recorded by arrangement with Grove Atlantic, Inc. (P)2014 Audible Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Interesting insight
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Hopefully the author will tell more combat storys!
A fantastic book
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Some of the descriptions remind me of other Russian war memoirs from World War Two with the horrific treatment from their own side, and the general horrors of war made worse by incompetence and negligence. I'm glad Babchenko made it out to tell this story.
Must be read, absolutely.
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One of the Very Best Memoirs
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Not for the faint of heart.
But Babchenko manages to squeeze some humanity from shockingly dehumanizing conflict and that's a fantastic achievement in my book.
Only downside is the structure. It seems to have been organized in the order it was written, resulting in a story that jumps around the timeline frequently and can be confusing at times.
A thoughtful account of a thoughtless war
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The best book about the Chechen war I’ve ever read
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Incredible recollection of Chechen War
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Dark
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They're a lot like us.
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Disturbing, gritty, and very dark
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