Audio Books →Born Under a Lucky Star A Red Army Soldier's Recollections of the Eastern Front of World War II [Audiobook]

Free Download Born Under a Lucky Star: A Red Army Soldier's Recollections of the Eastern Front of World War II (Audiobook)
English | September 27, 2022 | ASIN: B0BFG42S3L | M4B@128 kbps | 8h 9m | 444 MB
Author: Ivan Philippovich Makarov | Narrator: Daniel Henning
As a Russian recruit in World War II, Ivan Makarov witnessed General Chuikov pull out his pistol and shoot their regimental commander as a traitor. That was on his first day at the front. Thrown into an open field to face German tanks and artillery fire, with only rifles and machine guns to defend themselves with, almost 2,000 men of his regiment were wiped out in only six days at the Eastern Front. At this rate, Ivan struggled to comprehend how he would survive the hundreds of battles that lay before him, with death seeming to be the only certainty.
In his raw and trenchant memoir, Ivan recounts the terror and despair faced by a Red Army soldier on the Eastern Front. He has no sympathy for Stalin and his incompetent commanders, who sought awards and recognition at the expense of their soldiers' lives. He simply wanted to serve his country.