Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945

A New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the Arthur Goodzeit Prize
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize

A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources.

Of the thirty million who fought in the eastern front of World War II, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the men and women of the Red Army, a ragtag mass of soldiers who confron...