On the Volkhov and Karelian fronts. Diaries of a lieutenant. 1941-1944.
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The author of this fascinating memoir, written on the basis of brief diary entries and his mother's letters from the front, is Andrei Vladimirovich Nikolaev (1922-2013), an outstanding Soviet and Russian illustrator. For a long creative life created a series of illustrations to about two hundred books from domestic and foreign classics, modern authors. He is known to a wide range of readers as the author of illustrations for "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy, "Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin, "The White Guard" and "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov.
A.V. Nikolaev began his life as many guys of his generation: graduation ball at the end of the ten-year school, and in the morning of June 22, 1941 - the announcement of the beginning of the war. Mortar department Velikoustyug infantry school, service in a mortar regiment on the Volkhov and Karelian fronts, at the end of the war - the liberation of Hungary and Austria. The book is illustrated with drawings and diagrams made by the author.
A.V. Nikolaev began his life as many guys of his generation: graduation ball at the end of the ten-year school, and in the morning of June 22, 1941 - the announcement of the beginning of the war. Mortar department Velikoustyug infantry school, service in a mortar regiment on the Volkhov and Karelian fronts, at the end of the war - the liberation of Hungary and Austria. The book is illustrated with drawings and diagrams made by the author.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series On the front lines. The truth about the war
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