>expecting another ho-hum memoir, soldier bitching about trenches

Reading this soon, might read it after the Aenied tbqh

>>8182750
We're fresh out of tqbh, sorry man.

>>8182750
One Soldier's War by Arkaday Babcheko is more modern but is a good read.

Highlights to the best of my memory:
>Dedovshchina: the honored Russian conscript tradition of organized beatings, abuse and sexual assault
>Russian commanders as incompetent as the British in WWI
>Author gets tasked with making new bullet proof vests by cutting up used (ie, they had been shot through) ones and sewing them together
>Author would break into abandoned Chechen houses and just hang out pretending he was back at home
>"There aren't any pits in Khankala because there are plenty of journalists here, and they consider it an unacceptable form of torture to keep disobedient soldiers in pits."