Tank Rider: Into the Reich With the Red Army

First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Greenhill Books, 2003. 8vo., 254pp., illus. b/w plates. "Tank Rider is the atmospheric memoir of Evgeni Bessonov telling of his years of service in the vanguard of the Red Army and daily encounters with the German foe. He brings large-scale battles alive, recounts the sniping and skirmishing which tried and tested soldiers on both sides and narrates the overwhelming tragedy and horror of apocalyptic warfare on the Eastern Front." Fine in fine dust jacket.