Vasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier by Alexander Tvardovsky Shruti Chauhan which celebrate aspects of Christmas:

which celebrate aspects of Christmas: from the charity of King Wenceslas to the famous truce between the Allies and the Germans in the trenches in 1914

Moments of tenderness

The central preoccupation is that age-old

first impression form

caesura to dream” —Lisa Robertson

Vasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier by Alexander Tvardovsky Shruti Chauhan which celebrate aspects of Christmas:Vasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier is one of the great epic poems of the Second World War. Published in army newspapers and broadcast on the radio between 1942 and 1945, it was hugely popular with Soviet soldiers, many of whom believed it was about a real person was real. Private Tyorkin is an accordion playing Everyman figure, who moves between comedy and reluctant heroism. He is a cheerful grumbler always on the lookout for food and a quick kip,