{"product_id":"we-are-forsaken-trygve-rasmussen-9798266953130","title":"We Are Forsaken: A War Novel","description":"Russian men's stomachs burn with hunger. Their bladders freeze as they sit in Chechnya's bellicose, frigid forests. They suffer dysentery and the deaths of comrades. They smoke and laugh. They watch and listen to the torture of innocents and combatants. They are ambushed and curse their fool commanders. They behold sights more gruesome than they could have dreamt of. They grumble as APCs slowly deliver them hither and thither. They prepare to die.\u003cbr\u003e Meanwhile, Chechen men watch their comrades wither and die. They march across Chechnya's mountains, suffering ambushes in mountainous villages and upon the barren slopes. They reach the great, ancient capital of Grozny. They, too, prepare to die.\u003cbr\u003e One witnesses the burdens the war placed upon Chechnya's citizenry and their quarrels with the Russian invaders and Islamic extremists as both march towards Grozny, eventually reaching and disfiguring it together.\u003cbr\u003e Vadim is a Russian serviceman. Ramzan is a Chechen Islamist. All their struggles during the war are recorded in \u003ci\u003eWe Are Forsaken\u003c\/i\u003e, which tells the story of the Second Chechen War in its entirety. The corruption and destruction of the countryside by invading forces, the brutal street-to-street fight for Grozny, its collapse, and all that led to it are witnessed herein. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMay 24, 1998\u003cbr\u003eA view of cloudy, snow-peaked, coarse mountains behind them, down which blew fresh spring air, and, level with their eyes, welcoming, aged homes running in ranks on either side of the dusty main street of Urus-Martan,1 the group of burning men-radicals-were strolling, each wielding a piece of the Hammer of Fate, which they intended to bring down with great strength upon the final nails of a coffin, within the bounds of which they had agreed with bureaucrats from a foreign land to lay the remains of something called \"Chechnya.\"\u003cbr\u003e Soon, then, those streets would not look the same. Like the men, they will burn, and all the peacefulness will flee from them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Trygve Rasmussen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798266953130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.93d","brand":"Trygve Rasmussen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997157372159,"sku":"9798266953130","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/we-are-forsaken-trygve-rasmussen-9798266953130","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}