{"id":566,"date":"2009-05-11T22:35:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T05:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/?p=566"},"modified":"2011-01-20T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T12:07:00","slug":"one-soldiers-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/2009\/05\/one-soldiers-war\/","title":{"rendered":"One Soldier&#8217;s War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One Soldier&#8217;s War<\/strong><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Writer:<\/strong> Arkady Babchenko, Nick Allen<br \/>\n<strong>Translation: <\/strong>Nick Allen<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Grove Press, 2007<br \/>\nISBN 0802118607, 9780802118608<br \/>\n395 pages<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One Soldier\u2019s War is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier\u2019s experience in the Chechen wars that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. An excerpt of the book was hailed by Tibor Fisher in the Guardian as \u201cright up there with Catch-22 and Michael Herr\u2019s Dispatches,\u201d and the book won Russia\u2019s inaugural Debut Prize, which recognizes authors who write \u201cdespite, not because of, their life circumstances.\u201d In 1995, Arkady Babchenko was an eighteen-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Chechnya. It was the beginning of a torturous journey from na\u00efve conscript to hardened soldier that took Babchenko from the front lines of the first Chechen War in 1995 to the second in 1999. He fought in major cities and tiny hamlets, from the bombed-out streets of Grozny to anonymous mountain villages. Babchenko takes the raw and mundane realities of war\u2014the constant cold, hunger, exhaustion, filth, and terror\u2014and twists it into compelling, haunting, and eerily elegant prose. Acclaimed by reviewers around the world, this is a devastating first-person account of war by an extraordinary storyteller.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=waon-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0802144039&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Soldier&#8217;s War<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,41],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookshelf","tag-arkady-babchenko","tag-nick-allen"],"views":886,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7175,"href":"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/7175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}