In the Trenches - A Russian Woman Soldier''s Story of World War I

Tatiana L. Dubinskaya’s autobiographical novel of women’s life in the Russian army marked the first major work published by a female World War I soldier in the Soviet Union.
 

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Appendix
Notes
Index

About the author

Tatiana L. Dubinskaya (1902–90) served in the Russian army until 1917, then became a soldier and a nurse for the Red Army during the Russian Civil War (1917–22). After the civil war, she worked as a typist for the Red Army in Moscow and later became a writer. The Communist Party sent her to Tajikistan in 1931, and on her return to Moscow, she became active with the Union of Soviet Writers, earning a reputation as a Communist Party informant. Lawrence M. Kaplan is a military historian and the author of Homer Lea: American Soldier of Fortune and the editor of Pershing’s Tankers: Personal Accounts of the AEF Tank Corps in World War I, among other books.
 
 

Summary

Set in Russia in the year 1916, In the Trenches is based on the true story of the author's life during WWI. Fifteen-year-old Zina runs away from home to serve on the Eastern Front as a soldier in the Russian army.

Product details

• Authors: Tatiana Dubinskaya, Tatiana L Dubinskaya, Tatiana L. Dubinskaya, Tatiana L./ Kaplan Dubinskaya
• Assisted by: Lawrence Kaplan (Editor), Lawrence M Kaplan (Editor), Lawrence M. Kaplan (Editor)
• Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781640121966
• ISBN: 978-1-64012-196-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; FICTION / General, FICTION / Biographical, Fiction - General, FICTION / Historical / World War I