Catherine Merridale: Ivan's War [2006] paperback Condition:New In Three Sisters the Prozorov

In Three Sisters the Prozorov sisters endlessly dream of going to Moscow to escape the monotony of provincial life

'Storytelling at its finest

But on the eve of their annual autumn ball

Mayhew gives us a new understanding of the limits of human life and the extraordinary costs paid physically and mentally by casualties all over the world

she shows how aesthetic experience embodies a care relationship with the world and how the ethical relationship with others

Catherine Merridale: Ivan's War [2006] paperback Condition:New In Three Sisters the Prozorov'Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.' Antony Beevor, Sunday Times They died in their millions, shattered by German shells and tanks, freezing behind the wire of prison camps, driven forward in suicidal charges by the secret police. Yet in all the books about the Second World War on the eastern front, there is very little about how the Russian soldier lived, dreamed and