Nobody's Soldier: The Life of Andrii Antonenko

Andrii Antonenko was born in the Ukraine in 1922 shortly before the Communist purges of the Kulaks. He and his family were sent to work camps in the frozen steppes of the far North when he wasn’t even a teenager. He escaped the camp at an early age and from then on his life was a tale of extraordinary resilience and survival.
He was conscripted into the Red Army at the beginning of 1941 just prior to the German invasion of Russia, and was engaged in battle and subsequently wounded. He manag...