Roza's War: Diary of a Soviet Sniper

In Russia, individual life has always been cheap. Forty-one percent (14 million) of the Red Army troops who served from 1942-1945 ended up dead or missing, far outstripping other countries' losses. And yet, citizens of the Soviet Union were beating down Red Army doors to be allowed to serve. Why was everyone so eager to serve a government that didn't care about them? Because the people did care-about their lost loved ones, about the tales of Nazi brutality, about the existential threat to t...