Boris GorbachevskyBoris Gorbachevsky is a Red Army veteran of three years of combat on the Eastern Front of the Second World War. Twice wounded, he rose to the rank of captain, and was decorated with four Orders and many medals for his service in campaigns that took hm from Rzhev in 1942 to the shores of the Baltic and on to Czechoslovakia by war's end. He is a 1950 graduate of the Moscow Printing Institute, where he worked for the next 40 years as an instructor, journalist and editor. He is the author of 24 books published in Russia, six of them children's books, and for 20 years served as the editor of the All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information's monthly journal Izdatel'skoe delo i poligrafiia [Publishing and Printing]. In 1994 he moved to Rhode Island , where for 6 years he published the state's sole Russian-language journal Vestnik Rod-Ailenda. In 2007 he published his memoirs in Russia, Rzhevskaia Miasorubka [The Rzhev Slaughterhouse], which were translated into English and published by the University Press of Kansas in 2008 under the title Through the Maelstrom. Today Boris Gorbachevsky resides in the state of New York. Read More Read Less