by
Arkady Babchenko
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
A visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars.
In 1995, Arkady Babchenko was an eighteen-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Chechnya. It was the beginning of a torturous journey from naïve conscript...