Letters from the North. War at the Arctic Circle, 1941 – 1944. Yakov Shafirovich

Frank narrative of a soldier’s life at the Arctic Circle during World War II. A young man was drafted into the Red Army and brought to the shore of the Barents Sea just a few weeks before the German invasion. He spent the next three years on the front line, defending the Murmansk railroad. There he was wounded twice. In June 1944 he was transferred to the south to participate in a large-scale offensive in East Karelia, where he was gravely injured and, after a long stay in a hospital, sent home.