One Soldiers War in Chechnya - Download free ebook

none of us wanted to join the Chechens
lying here. As it was, the death rate was
way above the norm, even by military
standards. Try as they might, the
engineers could not remove all the
charges. They had worked at night and
hurried, and it had ended with one of
them blowing himself up. His bloodied
hat and bits of his belt were still lying
beside the crater. The blast had
detonated the grenades that hung from his
belt and there was nothing else left of
him.
As we stepped onto the dam we felt a
pleasant sense of relaxation in our
muscles; we were no longer standing on
the treacherous earth, where death
lurked beneath the surface. Beneath our