Surgeon Grow PAPERBACK 9781839997334

Name: Surgeon Grow PAPERBACK 9781839997334
Brand: Anthem Press

Anthem Press

Surgeon GrowAn American in the Russian Fighting\nAuthor(s): Laurie S. Stoff, Laurie S. Stoff\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Anthem Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Anthem Press\nISBN-13: 9781839997334, 978-1839997334\nSynopsis\nMalcolm Grows commentary presents us with a fascinating personal account of wartime experience, one that highlights a number of pertinent issues of Russias experience of total war. While military historiography is replete with studies of battle plans and strategies, troop movements, numbers of casualties, territorial gains, and decisions of state actors, war is so much more than these, as a fundamentally human experience. Unlike most other foreigners accounts of Russias war, written by journalists, diplomats, or civilian observers who spent little, if any, time at the front, Grows narrative provides a firsthand perspective of someone embedded with the Russian troops. Although his primary duty as a regimental doctor was medical care of wounded and ill soldiers, .