A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 - Hardcover

Grossman, Vasily

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375424075 ISBN 13: 9780375424076

Publisher: Pantheon, 2006

Synopsis

An eyewitness account of the campaigns of the Eastern Front during World War II draws on the firsthand reporting of a special correspondent for The Red Star, the Red Army's newspaper, documenting the savage battles, the siege of Stalingrad, the great tank battle of Kursk, the defense of Moscow, and early revelations about the Holocaust. 25,000 first printing.

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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 (1905-1964) came to be regarded as a hero of the Second World War. 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. 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. A regular officer in the 11th Hussars, he served in Germany and England. He has published several novels, and his works of non-fiction include The Spanish Civil War, Crete: The Battle and the Resistance, which won the 1993 Runciman Award, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 and Berlin: The Downfall, 1945. With his wife, Artemis Cooper, he wrote Paris: After the Liberation: 1944-1949. His book Stalingrad was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, the Wolfson History Prize and the Hawthornden Prize in 1999.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0375424075
• ISBN 13: 9780375424076
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400