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Comrade Coffin
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Post subject: Great book  Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:28 am |
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Joined: Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:44 pm
Posts: 344
Location: Bournemouth
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I have just finished reading Nikolai Livkin's '800 Days on the Eastern Front'. This is an excellent memoire, and particularly interesting for anyone who would like to gain an insight into the life at regimental & divisional front HQ, as Livkin spends most of his career as a driver of a Willys Jeep attached to varioue front-line commands.
His career was varied, to say the least, as he started the war in the 4th Guards Airbourne as a frontovikki- he ends up in their anti-tank artillery platoon, then he gets posted to a vehicle repair station before becoming a driver. He also serves in a straffbat for a while as a maxim gunner & ends up in the gulag after the war for keeping his TT handgun, which ends up being used in a robbery.
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Kolya (Nikolai) Chuvashkin
Rank: Guards Mladshiy Serzhant
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