On the Eastern Front at Seventeen: The Memoirs of a Red Army Soldier, 1942-1944 Drobyazko Sergey
On the Eastern Front at Seventeen: The Memoirs of a Red Army Soldier, 1942-1944 Drobyazko Sergey This is the true story of a young Red Army soldier during the Second World War, told in his own words.…
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On the Eastern Front at Seventeen: The Memoirs of a Red Army Soldier, 1942-1944 Drobyazko Sergey
This is the true story of a young Red Army soldier during the Second World War, told in his own words. Later, Drobyazko is captured by the Germans and placed in a concentration camp, where prisoners are reduced to eating scavenged rubbish and bathing battle wounds in urine.After a daring escape from the camp, he enters service once more, rising to the rank of sergeant in an infantry regiment. Recruited into the army aged just seventeen, Sergei Drobyazko's introduction to battle is a violent one: forced to retreat from his home city of Krasnodar after it is set ablaze by German forces.
After surviving an attack that decimates his detachment, Drobyazko is almost court-martialled. During this time, he witnesses the execution of deserters and the routine ill-treatment of German prisoners of war by vengeful Soviet troops. Seriously wounded in 1944, he retrains as a radio operator,
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