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• Winner of Paul Birdsall Prize 2020 (United States)

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Based on prodigious research in the Soviet archives, The Stuff of Soldiers interrogates dozens of objects within soldiers' grasp - from headgear to underwear, and spoons to tobacco - for their uses and meanings. The result is a fascinating retelling of how the Red Army fared in the Great Patriotic War. -- Lewis Siegelbaum, co-editor of <I>Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands</I> One of the best books about Soviet military life to appear in a long time. Among its many remarkable features is the way the author introduces non-Russian and women's voices to his story. The Stuff of Soldiers is beautifully written, with often cinematic scope, and hard to put down. -- Mark von Hagen, author of <I>Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship</I> The Stuff of Soldiers is the most important recent contribution, in any language, to the history of the Red Army in World War II. I read it in one sitting and was consistently engaged. Highly recommended! -- Mark Edele, author of <I>Stalin's Defectors</I>

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Brandon M. Schechter has taught at Columbia, New York University, NYU Shanghai, Brown, and the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his PhD. He is a contributor to Objects of War, edited by Leora Auslander and Tara Zahra.

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