A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red ArmyKnopf Canada, 05/10/2011 - 416 páginas 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 vivid eyewitness account of the Eastern Front and “the ruthless truth of war.” When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Red Army’s newspaper. 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. It also includes some of the earliest reportage on the Holocaust. 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.” |
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Cover | |
Baptism of Fire August 1941 | |
The Terrible Retreat August to September 1941 | |
Back into the Ukraine September 1941 | |
The German Capture of Orel October 1941 | |
The Withdrawal before Moscow October 1941 | |
The Air War in the South January 1942 | |
On the Donets with the Black Division January and February 1942 | |
The Stalingrad Academy Autumn 1942 | |
The October Battles | |
The Tide Turned November 1942 | |
PART THREE Recovering the Occupied Territories 1943 | |
After the Battle January 1943 | |
Winning Back the Motherland The Early Spring of 1943 | |
PART FOUR From the Dnepr to the Vistula 1944 | |
The Killing Ground of Berdichev January 1944 | |
With the Khasin Tank Brigade February 1942 | |
The Ruthless Truth of War March to July 1942 | |
The September Battles | |
Warsaw and Łódź January 1945 | |
AFTERWORD | |
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