This new book is a chronological narrative of the experiences of Evgenii Moniushko, who lived through and survived the first year of the siege of Leningrad and who served as a junior officer in the Red Army during the last eighteen months of war and the first year of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia and Hungary. This volume presents an intensely human view of daily army life both in combat and garrison duty and unique perspectives on the conditions he and other junior officers and common soldiers endured while in army service.
This book describes the everyday life of a Soviet citizen besieged in the city of Leningrad and his subsequent service in the Red Army during the war and post-war occupation of Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
