According to Victor Sonkin, memoirs of recent Chechen campaigns are fast becoming "a fact of Russian literature". In the Moscow Times, he points us to Art of War,
As always with accounts of recent warfare, emotions overwhelm literary merit. But common themes do emerge: death, blood, mud, angst and other one-syllable horrors, made worse by a fuzzy chain of command, confusion and corruption. There are no submissions from the Chechen point of view. Still, the archive is a candid reminder that nothing even remotely close to the Geneva Conventions has been adopted by either side.
There's also stories, poems, and artwork from Veitnam vets and Russians who fought in Afghanistan. In English and Russian.
Oh! And don't leave until you visit the site's strange Military Minatures page.
These resin figures in 54mm and 120mm scale are distinguished by their historical accuracy and the quality of their sculpting.
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