10-12-2007, 02:56 PM
Shall PM the link.
Various translations to date have been:
"And when a sub-unit commander had quitted the ranks he courageously undertook . . . ."
". . . at the withdrawal/dropping out/departure of the commander (incomplete word) boldly seized command . . . ."
That the commander was "taken out of action" or "put out of action".
". . . when a commander of the squad became a casualty . . . ."
The issue is whether the commander ran away (later, one presumes, to become a "casualty"), whether he fell in action, or something in between. There are, it seems, some very narrow and technical issues of Russian verb forms that pass blissfully above my head.
Various translations to date have been:
"And when a sub-unit commander had quitted the ranks he courageously undertook . . . ."
". . . at the withdrawal/dropping out/departure of the commander (incomplete word) boldly seized command . . . ."
That the commander was "taken out of action" or "put out of action".
". . . when a commander of the squad became a casualty . . . ."
The issue is whether the commander ran away (later, one presumes, to become a "casualty"), whether he fell in action, or something in between. There are, it seems, some very narrow and technical issues of Russian verb forms that pass blissfully above my head.
