A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945 - Softcover

Grossman, Vasily

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307275337 ISBN 13: 9780307275332

Publisher: Vintage, 2007

Synopsis

A Writer at War When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the "Red Star," the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. "A Writer at War" depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. Witnessing some of the most savage fighting of the war, Grossman saw firsthand the repeated early 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, the atrocities at Treblinka, and much more. Antony Beevor and ...

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Review:

"A first-rate volume of war reporting that belongs with the best work of writers like Ernie Pyle, A. J. Liebling and John Hersey. . . . Convey[s] the taste, the smell and the sounds of the front lines."--The New York Times Book Review"Overwhelmingly powerful. [Grossman's] combination of passion and detail, of patriotic fervor and journalistic objectivity, makes A Writer at War one of the greatest documents of World War II."--The New York Sun"Gripping...[has] the immediacy of eyewitness observation, but also the novelist's sensitivity to the men and women whose lives and deaths he was recording."--The Boston Globe "Excellent...Grossman, like Isaac Babel twenty years before him, lifts war correspondence to new heights."--Literary Review

About the Author:

VASILY GROSSMAN was born in 1905. In 1941 he became a war reporter for the Red Army newspaper Red Star and came to be regarded as a legendary war hero. Life and Fate, his masterpiece, was considered a threat to the totalitarian regime, and Grossman was told that there was no chance of the novel being published for another 200 years. Grossman died in 1964. ANTONY BEEVOR's books include Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945, which has been translated into 25 languages. DR. LUBA VINOGRADOVA is a researcher, translator, and freelance journalist. She has worked with Antony Beevor on his three most recent books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0307275337
• ISBN 13: 9780307275332
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416