Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front
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A riveting story of World War II from the author of Chernobyl,
winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fictionIn November
1943, with the outcome of the Second World War hanging in the
balance, the Allies needed a new plan. The Americans' audacious
suggestion to the Soviets was to open a second air front, with the
US Air Force establishing bases in Soviet-controlled territory.
Despite Stalin's obvious reservations about the presence of foreign
troops in Russia, he was persuaded.Operation Baseball and then
Frantic were initiated in early 1944 as B-17 Superfortresses were
flown from bases in Italy to the Poltova region in today's Ukraine.
Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy tells the gripping,
little-known story of this encounter between American and Soviet
soldiers and how their collaboration quickly fell apart, mirroring
the transition from the Grand Alliance to the Cold War. Soviet
secret policemen watched over the Americans, shadowing their every
move.A catastrophic air raid by the Germans revealed the
limitations of Soviet air defences. As their initial enthusiasm
turned into disappointment, the American soldiers started calling
themselves the Forgotten Bastards of Ukraine. Ultimately, no common
purpose could overcome their cultural and political
differences.Drawing on newly opened Russian archives as well as CIA
records, Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front offers a riveting
bottom-up history of one of the Second World War's most unlikely
alliances.
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