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Spanish Sadness. The Blue Division and the Campaign in Russia, 1941–1942. Memories by V.I. Kovalevsky

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Spanish Sadness. The Blue Division and the Campaign in Russia, 1941–1942. Memories by V.I. Kovalevsky
14.99 €
Vladimir Ivanovich Kovalevsky was from the generation of Russian officers who never finished "their" war. Having gone through World War I and not accepting the revolution, Kovalevsky was among the first officials of the Volunteer Army, and in 1920 he left Crimea with the Whites. Then he served in the French Foreign Legion, studied in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and fought on the side of General Franco in Spain. In the summer of 1941, Kovalevsky enlisted as an interpreter in the Spanish 250th division of the Wehrmacht, known as the Blue Division, with which he went on a campaign against the USSR. In the Novgorod region, he saw in its entirety the grim picture of the suffering of civilians "under the Spaniards" and experienced a breakdown, disappointed in his illusions and his own unsightly role as "a stranger among strangers. In the spring of 1942, Kovalevsky returned to San Sebastian, where he wrote "in the desk" these memoirs, which never saw the light of day during the author's lifetime. In them are the unfulfilled hopes of the Russian abroad, an unfamiliar view "from the other side of the front" and the metamorphosis of a loner who made a fateful choice.
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