The Guardian - 31-Oct-2012
s Soviet jeep is. I ask his Dad. 1941. We're heading through the world's largest wild walnut wood in Arslanbob , and I'm planning to help Otkirbek harvest the family patch. He's bunking off school, but we pass one of his teachers, also gathering nuts. There are bivouacs everywhere and whole families collecting nuts. We arrive at ours, a stick skeleton that is soon covered with a blanket and plastic...