A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780676978100 (067697810X)
Publish date: January 10th 2006
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Pages no: 400
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.