A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (971 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0676978118 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Writer at War – based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered raw material for his articles – depicts the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. In the three years he spent on assignment, Grossman witnessed some of the most savage fighting of the war: the appalling defeats of the Red Army, the brutal street fighting in Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk (the largest tank engagement in history), the defense of Moscow, the battles in Ukraine and much more.Historian Antony Beevor has taken Grossman’s raw notebooks, and fashioned them into a narrative providing one of the most even-handed descriptions – at once unflinching and sensitive – we have ever had of what he called “the ruthless truth of war.”From the Hardcover edition.. Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud to present a masterpiece of the Second World War, never before published in English, from one of the great Russian writers of the 20th century – a vivi
"Grim" according to Jacqueline Chaytor. Liked the way the letters and articles of Mr. Grossman were offset by Mr. Beevor's input. Mr. Grossman's "turn of phrase" was very well done - allowing the reader to see exactly what he was seeing, be it an old man's hair waving in the wind or the cold hands of a soldier.
A regular officer in the 11th Hussars, he served in Germany and England. Twenty years later it was smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm and published to wide acclaim in the West.Antony Beevor was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. Life and Fate, his novel about the siege of Stalingrad, was written in 1960 but was declared a threat to the Soviet government and was confiscated by the KGB. His book Stalingrad
By writing about the Shoah, Grossman showed both moral integrity and extraordinary courage of imagination. He was above all a clear-eyed and generous witness to the human cost of war, civilians and soldiers of both sides, the lost women and broken men; in the very highest order of journalistic achievement, he was as alert to the victims as much as to the heroes his audience was required to read about.” —Daily Telegraph“Grossman had an eye for detail and the material assembled here, so colourful and sharp, helps us to understand both the writer and the war he was attempting to describe…. “Excellent…Grossman, like Isaac Babel twenty years b