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Originally Posted by helbent4
Lee,
A great book I recommend for anyone wanting a good appreciation of how Russia fought in WWII, and how they saw themselves is "Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army 1939-45." It's based on historical records from Russian archives, diaries, letters, and personal anecdotes.
For one thing, the Red Army of 1941 which used human wave attacks was largely dead by 1942. Taking their place were professional officers and soldiers, with technical skills and training.
http://www.amazon.com/Ivans-War-Life.../dp/0805074554
Moving onto the Pentomic divisions, S&T had a couple wargames in the Cold War Battles series that features them: as an optional unit is Budapest '56 and the focus of Wurzburg Pentomic:
There's a fascinating write-up of the Pentomic concept. Great in theory but difficult to pull off in practice!
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4...tomic-wurzburg
Tony |
I have a copy somewhere around the house. I for one am very intrested in the Russian view of the war, but I'm handicapped by only being to speak basic Russian, you know "give me a bottle of vodka", "I'd like the house special", "how much for your daughter", and a few of the cruder insults, you know, what any GI knows. And its hard to get copies of the Russian works on the subject at least in the land of "if its not invented here, it can't be any good!"
Ah the pentomic division, they only redeeming feature is that the battle group commander gets to play with tacnukes by himself. Operationaly, it sucked wind!