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General Turchin

Where the Blacksmith Settles
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This historical novel looks at the life of only Russian officer who became a General during the American Civil War. Ivan Vasilyevich Turchaninov… better known by his Anglicised name of John Basil Turchin, was a Union Army Brigadier General in the American Civil War. He led two critical charges that saved the day at Chickamauga and was among the first to lead soldiers up Missionary Ridge. He was court-martialled for allowing his men to perpetrate the "Sack of Athens," and found guilty of all charges, but President Abraham Lincoln promoted him to Brigadier General, which invalidated the verdict, as an officer could only be tried by those of equal or greater rank. Translated into English from the Russian for the first time by John Mandelberg.

Alexander Borshchagovsky was born in 1913 and was a popular writer who also wrote patriotic novels including The Russian Flag (1953) and Milky Way (1968). One story became a famous film Three Poplars on Plyushchikah (1967). Further films based on his stories were Only Three Nights (1969), Train to Tomorrow (1970), Door without a Lock (1973), Glass Beads (1978), the play The Ladies Tailor (1990) became a film that highlights the tragic mass murder of Ukrainian Jews by the Nazis at Babi Yar in the Ukraine in 1941. He died in 2006.

* First English translation from the Russian about the enigmatic Russian Cossack leader who settled in the USA and became a friend of Abraham Lincoln, being the only Russian officer to lead Union soldiers during the American Civil War.

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