{"product_id":"9781555848354","title":"One Soldier's War","description":"\u003cb\u003eA visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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 naïve 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 the constant cold, hunger, exhaustion, filth, and terror and twists it into compelling, haunting, and eerily elegant prose.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Acclaimed by reviewers around the world, this is a devastating first-person account of war that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. An excerpt of \u003ci\u003eOne Soldier’s War\u003c\/i\u003e was hailed by Tibor Fisher in \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e as “right up there with Joseph Heller’s \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e and Michael Herr’s \u003ci\u003eDispatches\u003c\/i\u003e.” Mark Bowden, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Hawk Down\u003c\/i\u003e, hailed it as “hypnotic and terrifying” and the book won Russia’s inaugural Debut Prize, which recognizes authors who write despite, not because of, their life circumstances.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “If you haven’t yet learned that war is hell, this memoir by a young Russian recruit in his country’s battle with the breakaway republic of Chechnya, should easily convince you.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133498704112,"sku":"9781555848354","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555848354_p0.jpg?v=1763753494","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555848354","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}