Nichivo: Life, Love and Death on the Russian Front

by Giorgio Geddes (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.25

  While countless histories of the military conflict have been written, very little has ever been told of the appalling suffering endured by the common people who were caught up in the midst of the war. In this book Giorgio Geddes tells the story of the horror experienced by the people who found themselves sandwiched between the two greatest armies the world has ever seen. It is a story of a people constantly harried by bandits and local war-lords, who were routinely robbed of food and fuel by the invading German Army, and who lived under the constant threat of being deported to Germany; people who had just as much to fear from their own troops as from the Germans. And yet buried within all the horror are moments of such beauty that no reader could fail to be moved. Passionately told, this is a stunning and poignant account of life on the Russian Front as never told before.