The Liberators: My Life In The Soviet Army
by Viktor Suvorov /
1983 / English / PDF
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Here is a sardonic and highly personal document by the author of
the definitive study of the Red Army, 'Inside the Soviet Army.'
Suvorov is the pseudonym of an officer in the post-Khrushchev
Soviet army who defected to England.
Here is a sardonic and highly personal document by the author of
the definitive study of the Red Army, 'Inside the Soviet Army.'
Suvorov is the pseudonym of an officer in the post-Khrushchev
Soviet army who defected to England.
No previous book by a Russian has revealed with such clarity and
honesty what life is like in the Soviet Army. Suvorov takes the
reader through the mind-freezing savagery of a penal glass-house
and the extravagant idiocy of army maneuvers on the grandest scale.
He shows how an officer is trained, and how the hierarchy of the
Soviet army is achieved and maintained. He gives brutally frank
portraits of the senior commanders and politicians, and of the
petty bureaucrats and Party informers.
No previous book by a Russian has revealed with such clarity and
honesty what life is like in the Soviet Army. Suvorov takes the
reader through the mind-freezing savagery of a penal glass-house
and the extravagant idiocy of army maneuvers on the grandest scale.
He shows how an officer is trained, and how the hierarchy of the
Soviet army is achieved and maintained. He gives brutally frank
portraits of the senior commanders and politicians, and of the
petty bureaucrats and Party informers.
There is much satiric humor in his Suvorov's vivid narrative, which
includes his experiences not only in training and garrison but in
action, such as the infamous crushing of the Czech uprising.
There is much satiric humor in his Suvorov's vivid narrative, which
includes his experiences not only in training and garrison but in
action, such as the infamous crushing of the Czech uprising.