Surgeon Grow
An American in the Russian Fighting
1st Edition
Published on 2. December 2025
178 pages
978-1-83999-734-1 (ISBN)
Description
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. Unlike most other foreigners' accounts of Russia's war, written by journalists, diplomats, or civilian observers who spent little, if any, time at the "front," Grow's narrative provides a firsthand perspective of someone embedded with the Russian troops. Although his primary duty as a regimental doctor was medical care of wounded and ill soldiers, Grow's narrative focuses much attention on combat, particularly his experiences observing operations from the trenches-even occasionally being drawn into the fighting.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
File size
0,47 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-83999-734-1 (9781839997341)
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12/2025
Anthem Press
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Persons
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
Content
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
