West of Moscow by Dmytro Chub

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Paperback. Signed by author.

The memoirs of Dmytro Chub, a Ukrainian author now living in Australia, exemplify the best of writings dealing with World War II in Eastern Europe; they are vividly written.
Chub, a former soldier of the Red Army, presents not only the chronological account of what happened to him, but also gives an analysis of the Ukrainian role in the war. The author will convince most readers that one of the major reasons for the Red Army's defeat in the initial stage of the war lay with the Ukrainians. Approximately every fifth soldier in the Red Army was a Ukrainian who did not want to fight for the Soviet regime ..