An Anti-Communist on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of a Russian Officer in the Spanish Blue Division 1941-1942 (Kovalevski Vladimir)(Pevná vazba)

Vladimir Kovalevskii's memoirs record in graphic detail a remarkable military career. As a soldier, a committed anti-communist and Russian patriot he saw from the inside a series of conflicts that ravaged Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.

In the First World War he fought the Germans, as a White Russian he opposed the Bolsheviks. He joined the French Foreign Legion and served in Africa before fighting for Franco in the Spanish Civil War and for Hitler in the Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front in the Second World War.

His memoirs give a vivid insight into the armies he fought with and the causes he fought for - and they show how eventually the mental toll became so great that he was devoured by his own contradictions and the contradictions of his times.

His experiences on the Eastern Front during the Second World War were shocking. He
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