The Hidden History of America at War by Kenneth C. Davis

Author:Kenneth C. Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2015-05-04T16:00:00+00:00

The advancing Soviet legions resembled no other army the world had ever seen. A mingling of old and new, Europe and Asia, high intelligence and brutish ignorance, ideology and patriotism, technological sophistication and the most primitive transport and equipment. T-34s, artillery and katyusha rocket launchers were followed by jeeps and Studebakers and Dodge trucks supplied under Lend-Lease, then by shaggy ponies and columns of horsemen, farm carts and trudging peasants from the remote republics of Central Asia, clad in foot cloths and rags of uniform. Drunkenness was endemic.… The only discipline rigorously enforced was that which required men—and women—to attack, fight, and to die. Stalin and his marshals cared nothing for the preservation of civilian life or property.20

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