A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307424587 (0307424588)
Publish date: December 18th 2007
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
War,
Military,
Politics,
Russia,
World War II,
Military History
Very impressive, tautly organized, deserves that little nytimes medal or whatever on the cover. Covers v gross man who was soviet russia's main newspaperman from Barbarossa on. Gross man wrote about Stalingrad to Berlin, and wrote a novel. Like Shostakovich, was not a total favorite of Stalin , but ...
Starts 00:30 Sunday 18th November: Elliot Levey reads Vasily Grossman's front line despatches from the battle of Stalingrad#1. Through Chekhov's Eyes: In the war of the rats, snipers like Anatoly Chekhov reigned. Powerfully written.Extraordinary.One of those that shall remain un-rated.