Surgeon Grow - An American in the Russian Fighting

Malcolm Grow's commentary presents us with a fascinating personal account of wartime experience, one that highlights a number of pertinent issues of Russia's experience of total war. While military historiography is replete with studies of battle plans and strategies, troop movements, numbers of casualties, territorial gains, and decisions of state actors, war is so much more than these, as a fundamentally human experience.

List of contents

Laurie S. Stoff, Editor's Introduction; Surgeon Grow: An American in the Russian Fighting; Foreword; I. I Go to Russia; II. Two Weeks of Sight-Seeing; III. The Hussars Hospital at Tsarskoe-Selo; IV. Preparing To Go to the Front; V. Off to the Front; VI. The Spectacle in the Frozen Lake; VII. The Professor of Mathematics; VIII. In the Russian Trenches; vi Contents; IX. I Go "Over the Top"; X. I Meet the Czar; XI. Over the German Lines; XII. Through a Shower of Shells; XIII. The Battle of Postovy; XIV. The Dogs of War; XV. Sound Sleepers; XVI. Injured by a Shell; XVII. The Medal of St. George; XVIII. A Demonstration Attack; XIX. We Join Brusiloff's Big Drive; XX. The Battle of the Stockhod; XXI. We Break Through!; XXII. A Blind Army; XXIII. The Gas Attack; XXIV. The Revolution; XXV. After the Revolution; Index

About the author

Dr. Laurie S. Stoff is a specialist in Russian and East European history, women's and gender studies, and the history of war and society, with an MA and PhD in History from the University of Kansas

Product details

• Authors: Laurie S. Stoff
• Assisted by: Laurie S. Stoff (Editor), Laurie S. Stoff (Introduction)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2025
• EAN: 9781839997327
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-732-7
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Anthem Americans in Revolutionary Russia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; USA, European History, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, United States of America, USA, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), 1917–1923 (Russian Revolutionary period), HISTORY / Russia / Imperial, HISTORY / Europe / Portugal