Vasily Grossman

Broschiertes Buch

A Writer At War

Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945

Herausgegeben von Beevor, Antony; Vinogradova, Luba

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pimlico / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 588956
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 132mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781845950156
• ISBN-10: 1845950151
• Artikelnr.: 22438586

Rezensionen

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