One Soldiers War in Chechnya - Download free ebook

We hand him seven water bottles,
including the spare one I stole from the
storage shed in Sverdlovsk.
Vovka is away for half an hour;
there’s a crowd at the water fountain and
a long queue to get a drink.
On his way back I watch him pass the
major, who is sitting on the ground in the
middle of our group, and see him look
over his shoulder at the papers he’s
holding in his hand. These are our
dossiers. The major lays them out in two
piles like he is the very Lord of Fate.
One pile is large, the other is small, and
it’s clear that those in the smaller one
will now be loaded into the Cow and
flown to Khankala, the main base
outside Grozny, or Severny, and the