One Soldier's War -

Arkady Babchenko

Grove Press

2009

420 páginas

14h 0m

ISBN-10: B008RZK5L4

In 1995, Arkady Babchenko was an eighteen-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 it into compelling, haunting, and eerily elegant prose.

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Relatos reveladores

Esse livro, em sua grande parte, revela a condição real de soldados em exércitos mal preparados mandados para guerras sem sentido.
Não há relatos de batalhas, há relatos de violência por parte dos superiores, roubo de comida, sobrevivência, comer carne de cachorros porque não tinha nenhhuma outra opção, etc.