[polishshooter]

Actually the quote above for the SU-152 was the "Beast Killer," it was good on Panthers too...

Well I finished the book, and her extensive notes, and I HIGHLY recommend it! In fact, I might just have to buy my own copy, it's a keeper.

There are STILL official Russian (and from the other republics too) governmental agencies whose job it is to exhume the remains from mass graves that are found all over Russia, Belorussia, the Ukraine, Georgia, and the Crimea...

In her notes there is even a report from one of these groups who studied the clothing and equipment, and catalogues the finds, that says..."by 1944, the Soviet soldier was better equipped and clothed than the German..." kind of eerie that its from WWII bodies being unearthed NOW...

I learned that proportionately, compared to pre-war population, Poland actually lost more war dead (counting those killed by Germans AND Soviets, plus the Polish Jews, than any other nation in the war, a fact the Soviets kept buried so "nothing would overshadow Russian 'victimhood...'" just like they did MANY others....


You cannot read this book without identifying just a little with the Soviet people under Stalin's thumb, AND end up hating Josef Stalin AND both Marxist/Leninist theory and Communism as a whole more than ever...


And perfect timing too! Morison's Volume 10 arrived Friday! "The Atlantic Won, 1943-54"