A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945

ISBN-13: 9781845950156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 400 str.

Vasily Grossman

Opis

Deemed unfit for service when the Germans invaded in 1941, the author became a special correspondent for Red Star, the Red Army newspaper, observing on the Eastern front with a writer's eye the most pitiless fighting ever known. This title offers an account of the war on the Eastern Front.

Recenzje

A remarkable addition to the literature of 1941-45...a wonderful portrait of the wartime experience of Russia... A worthy memorial to a remarkable man Max Hastings Sunday Telegraph

O autorze

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.