Vasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier by Alexander Tvardovsky russian recipes of desperate flights from marauding

of desperate flights from marauding thugs and Red Army soldiers

historians

with a sideline in contraband

Madrid and London

His stories are at once the biography of a rare survivor

Vasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier by Alexander Tvardovsky russian recipes of desperate flights from maraudingTranslated by James Womack Vasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier is one of the great epic poems of the Second World War. Published in army newspapers and broadcast on the radio between 1942 and 1945, it was hugely popular with Soviet soldiers, many of whom believed it was about a real person. Private Tyorkin is an accordion playing Everyman figure, who moves between comedy and reluctant heroism, a cheerful grumbler happy to share his last tobacco