Research Catalog

Title

From Stalingrad to Pillau : a Red Army artillery officer remembers the Great Patriotic War / Isaak Kobylyanskiy ; edited by Stuart Britton.

Author

Kobylyanskiy, Isaak, 1923-

Publication

Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Britton, Stuart

Description

ix, 316., [18] p of plates: ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Stalingrad's outskirts provided Isaak Kobylyanskiy, a 19-year-old ethnic Jew from Ukraine, with his first exposure to combat and initiated his long odyssey in the Great Patriotic War against Germany. It would be more than three years before he was finally reunited with his family and his sweetheart, Vera, the schoolmate he had promised to marry." "From the liberation of Sevastopol, through Lithuania's countryside, to the final storming of Konigsberg's heavy fortifications, Kobylyanskiy's memoir sweeps across the great expanses of the Eastern Front. His narrative is packed with dramatic details - including revealing depictions of forgotten or ignored aspects of certain battles - and insights into the daily life of the Soviet army: the relentless marches to locate and engage the enemy, the prejudicial treatment of female soldiers, and the plight of Soviet civilians."--book jacket.

Series Statement

Modern war studies

Uniform Title

Modern war studies

Subject

• Kobylyanskiy, Isaak, 1923-
• Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Eastern Front
• World War, 1939-1945 > Artillery operations, Soviet
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Russian
• Soldiers > Soviet Union > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Personal narratives – Russian
• Erlebnisbericht.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-308) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I.A teen on the eve of war. Vinnitsa -- Kiev -- II. The war. The war begins -- Three months at a military college and seven weeks in a re-forming division -- The beginning on the Volga's Left Bank -- The Mius front and the Donbas -- The path to the Dnieper River's mouth -- Fighting for the Crimea -- In the first Baltic front -- Initial months on the enemy's land -- Some fortunate finds in East Prussia -- The fall of Königsberg -- Finally, the great victory -- III. Various reflections on the war. An important factor in our victory -- What war taught me -- Letters from afar -- Sometimes we marched in our sleep -- Two more bloodless aspects of our daily routine -- Leisure at the front -- Ideological pressure -- A Jew at the front: a frank discussion -- Women of our rifle regiment -- The Germans: recollections of my feelings and encounters -- IV. The war ended but life went on. Three postwar months in East Prussia -- My discharge from the Army -- My return home -- I rejoin my alma mater -- Our young family.

ISBN

• 9780700615667 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0700615660 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007041706

OCLC

• 174112756
• SCSB-11903053

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library