| Books |
Tank Rider: Into the Reich with the Red Army
Evgeni Bessnov
The dramatic memoirs of a Russian officer on the Eastern Front.
The defeat of Germany from the perspective of the Red Army.
Honest and irrepressibly frank, Bessonov's dramatic memoirs reveal
just what it was like to fight on the Eastern Front. There he played a
part in this clash of titans and he witnessed the shuddering collapse
of the Third Reich.
The cataclysmic battle of Kursk in 1943 put an end to Hitler's hopes
of victory on the Eastern Front and it was Bessonov's first battle.
From then on the Germans were forced into a long, bitter retreat that
ended in the ruins of Berlin in 1945. At the forefront of the drive to
expel the Germans from the Soviet Union, and push on to the gates
of the Reich's capital, were men like Evgeni Bessonov. A tank rider,
and officer in an elite guards unit of the Red Army, Bessonov rode
tanks from Kursk, through a western Russia and Poland devastated
by the Germans, and right into the heart of Nazi Germany.
Tank Rider is the atmospheric memoir of Evgeni Bessonov telling of
his years of service in the vanguard of the Red Army and daily
encounters with the German foe. He brings large-scale battles alive,
recounts the sniping and skirmishing which tried and tested soldiers
on both sides and narrates the overwhelming tragedy and horror of
apocalyptic warfare on the Eastern Front.
Soft Cover, 254 pages, 16 pages b/w photos.
$19.95
Evgeni Bessnov
The dramatic memoirs of a Russian officer on the Eastern Front.
The defeat of Germany from the perspective of the Red Army.
Honest and irrepressibly frank, Bessonov's dramatic memoirs reveal
just what it was like to fight on the Eastern Front. There he played a
part in this clash of titans and he witnessed the shuddering collapse
of the Third Reich.
The cataclysmic battle of Kursk in 1943 put an end to Hitler's hopes
of victory on the Eastern Front and it was Bessonov's first battle.
From then on the Germans were forced into a long, bitter retreat that
ended in the ruins of Berlin in 1945. At the forefront of the drive to
expel the Germans from the Soviet Union, and push on to the gates
of the Reich's capital, were men like Evgeni Bessonov. A tank rider,
and officer in an elite guards unit of the Red Army, Bessonov rode
tanks from Kursk, through a western Russia and Poland devastated
by the Germans, and right into the heart of Nazi Germany.
Tank Rider is the atmospheric memoir of Evgeni Bessonov telling of
his years of service in the vanguard of the Red Army and daily
encounters with the German foe. He brings large-scale battles alive,
recounts the sniping and skirmishing which tried and tested soldiers
on both sides and narrates the overwhelming tragedy and horror of
apocalyptic warfare on the Eastern Front.
Soft Cover, 254 pages, 16 pages b/w photos.
$19.95
| Videos |
 | |  | |  | |  |
