The best book I can recommend is *The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan* by Lester W. Grau and David M. Glantz. It’s not quite what you’re looking for, but it’s close.
The author is a Belarusian journalist, and she specialises in a kind of oral storytelling – she interviews people about a topic, and weaves their testimony together into a narrative. In this case, the topic is the Soviets in Afghanistan. She interviews veterans (of all ranks), the mothers and wives of the dead, medics who treated the wounded, journalists covering the war, the sons and daughters born after the war to fathers who weren’t quite right…
Her work’s unique, and really cool. This is, in many ways, a story she herself is intimately aware of – like I said, she’s Belarusian, so these are the boys she knew as a young woman
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The best book I can recommend is *The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan* by Lester W. Grau and David M. Glantz. It’s not quite what you’re looking for, but it’s close.
[Zinky Boys](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5586087), by Svetlana Alexievich.
The author is a Belarusian journalist, and she specialises in a kind of oral storytelling – she interviews people about a topic, and weaves their testimony together into a narrative. In this case, the topic is the Soviets in Afghanistan. She interviews veterans (of all ranks), the mothers and wives of the dead, medics who treated the wounded, journalists covering the war, the sons and daughters born after the war to fathers who weren’t quite right…
Her work’s unique, and really cool. This is, in many ways, a story she herself is intimately aware of – like I said, she’s Belarusian, so these are the boys she knew as a young woman