
A Writer At War
Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
By: Vasily Grossman
Paperback | 7 January 2006 | Edition Number 1
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A WRITER AT WAR is based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered his raw material. It depicts as never before the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front and the lives and deaths of infantrymen, tank drivers, pilots, snipers and civilians alike.Deemed unfit for service when the Germans invaded in 1941, Grossman became a special correspondent for Red Star, the Red Army newspaper. Remarkably, he spent three of the following four years at the front observing with a writer's eye the most pitiless fighting ever known.Grossman witnessed almost all the major events on the Eastern Front- the appalling defeats and desperate retreats of 1941, the defence of Moscow and fighting in the Ukraine.
In August 1942 he was posted to Stalingrad where he remained during four months of brutal street-fighting. He was present at the battle of Kursk, the largest tank engagement in history, and, as the Red Army advanced, he reached Berdichev where his worst fears for his mother and other relations were confirmed. A Jew himself, he undertook the faithful recording of Holocaust atrocities as their extent dawned. His supremely powerful report 'The Hell of Treblinka' was used in evidence at the Nuremberg tribunal.
A WRITER AT WAR offers the one outstanding eye-witness account of the war on the Eastern Front and perhaps the best descriptions ever of what Grossman called 'the ruthless truth of war'.
Industry Reviews
Magnificent... Any war correspondent writing today about the horrors we are still being subjected to by ideologues, mean-spirited leaders and fanatics of various shades and faiths, should take the time to read him. There is a profound humanity in his prose, an abilitity for empathy and a capacity for rage that one rarely meets -- Omer Bartov * Times Literary Supplement *
Grossman, like Isaac Babel twenty years before him, lifts war correspondence to new heights * Literary Review *
As a pithy account of war at its most extreme, this fascinating book will rarely be bettered -- James Delingpole * Mail on Sunday *
Unforgettable... Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova have recovered nothing less than a lost classic of reportage -- Sean McCarthy * The Scotsman *
ISBN: 9781845950156
ISBN-10: 1845950151
Published: 7th January 2006
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 400
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 19.5 x 12.5 x 3
Weight (kg): 0.35
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