Surgeon Grow (eBook, ePUB)

An American in the Russian Fighting
Redaktion: S. Stoff, Laurie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Malcolm Grow's commentary presents us with a fascinating personal account of wartime experience, one that highlights a number of pertinent issues of Russia's experience of total war. While military historiography is replete with studies of battle plans and strategies, troop movements, numbers of casualties, territorial gains, and decisions of state actors, war is so much more than these, as a fundamentally human experience. Unlike most other foreigners' accounts of Russia's war, written by journalists, diplomats, or civilian observers who spent little, if any, time at the "front," Grow's narrative provides a firsthand perspective of someone embedded with the Russian troops. Although his primary duty as a regimental doctor was medical care of wounded and ill soldiers, Grow's narrative focuses much attention on combat, particularly his experiences observing operations from the trenches-even occasionally being drawn into the fighting. His narrative clearly reveals how lines of separation between combatants and non-combatants were blurred on the Eastern Front, where the war was highly mobile and divisions between "front" and "rear" were difficult to maintain. As a result, medical personnel were exposed to dangers, deprivations, and physical and psychological traumas that paralleled the experiences of combatants. Grow also offers his observations of the Russian revolutions of 1917 and their effects on the army. Although he does so through a distinctly American lens and thus reflects some (mis)conceptions held by Americans and other Westerners, his narrative also defies some of these conventions, and provides us with a unique and intimate look at life on the Russian front.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839997341
• Artikelnr.: 75958274

Autorenporträt

Dr. Laurie S. Stoff is a specialist in Russian and East European history, women's and gender studies, and the history of war and society, with an MA and PhD in History from the University of Kansas

Inhaltsangabe

Laurie S. Stoff, Editor's Introduction
 Surgeon Grow: An American in the Russian Fighting
 Foreword
 I. I Go to Russia
 II. Two Weeks of Sight-Seeing
 III. The Hussars Hospital at Tsarskoe-Selo
 IV. Preparing To Go to the Front
 V. Off to the Front
 VI. The Spectacle in the Frozen Lake
 VII. The Professor of Mathematics
 VIII. In the Russian Trenches
 vi Contents
 IX. I Go "Over the Top"
 X. I Meet the Czar
 XI. Over the German Lines
 XII. Through a Shower of Shells
 XIII. The Battle of Postovy
 XIV. The Dogs of War
 XV. Sound Sleepers
 XVI. Injured by a Shell
 XVII. The Medal of St. George
 XVIII. A Demonstration Attack
 XIX. We Join Brusiloff's Big Drive
 XX. The Battle of the Stockhod
 XXI. We Break Through!
 XXII. A Blind Army
 XXIII. The Gas Attack
 XXIV. The Revolution
 XXV. After the Revolution
 Index