THE VOICE OF FIGHTING RUSSIA: An Embottled People's Report

Individually, some of these stories are magnificent records of courage; taken en masse, there's too much of the same, translated with no touch of lightness or humor. A collection of close on to a hundred anecdotes of the bravery of Soviet soldiers, peasants, workers, men, women and children -- all so much of the same pattern that one's response is dulled. Army, navy, air force, civilian -- mass heroism.