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A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 |  | Author: Vasilii Grossman
Creators: Luba Vinogradova, Antony Beevor
Publisher: Pimlico
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 65317
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 400
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 1845950151
EAN: 9781845950156
ASIN: 1845950151
Publication Date: September 7, 2006
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Vasily Grossman's masterpiece 'Life and Fate' is rated by many as the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. Among its admirers is Antony Beevor, the bestselling author of Stalingrad and Berlin. This book is based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered his raw material.
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 A Writer at War March 5, 2010
Philip ATKINSON (london u.k.)
A splendid book, a must have for anyone with an interest in that grim part of World War Two, very revealing of the ordinary men & women who endured those ghastly years of the 20th. century. I would recommend this book for young people to read & know the history of this terrible conflict.
Time is blood January 17, 2010
Spilsbury (UK, Liverpool)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is such a superb collection of wartime observations, interviews and analyses of the sweeping panorama of war. Grossman was the voice of the Eastern Front. A 'heroic' writer for the Soviet War machine and a man of sensitivity, humanity and compassion. He takes us through the unrelenting horror of Stalingrad with an eye for small details, a view of the ordinary man always foremost in his mind, and with a moving patriotic love and compassion for his suffering comrades. The Russian wears white in war. Is expiated for his past sins with suffering. The Russian knows how to die in war, where he struggles to live in peacetime. We are taken through other battles- Kursk with a detailed eye for military movements in their contemporary and historical contexts. Grossman understands profoundly the historical importance of the experience he is going through. We reach Berdichev and the horror of genocide against the Jews which is worsted by his experience of Treblinka. Here is writing which is extraordinarily poignant for its simplicity, its candid observation and the internal anger that is so well disciplined and marshaled by his analytical writers mind that swells like a rising tide.
The book is a window into a world of so much horror and suffering, that is at times poetic, profoundly insightful and unrelentingly honest. Poignant moments are so many. The taking of Berlin is a tragic end where his compassion and humanity maintains its dignified head. Grossman feels and conveys human suffering so simply and yet so movingly and powerfully internalising so much pain, that his writing is an elegy to the gracefulness of suffering.
Beevor provides much vital explanatory material between references, since much of the observations can range from one line observations, to character portraits to interviews, that the reader can get lost in the material occasionally, and i think in the first 100 pages in particular. However this book really takes off from Stalingrad and becomes a masterpiece of journalism that educates and harrows as it does hold the reader tight to it, till the end. A brilliant and crucial piece of work to understanding the monumental horrors of war in the Eastern front, and to understand the warped monstrosities of the holocaust which murdered culture, history and thousands of years of professional skills and artisanship.
Heroism at the front,Stalinism immediately behind November 15, 2009
Benoit Gestels (belgium)
Writer from his own experience guides us into the workings of the totalitarian world of Russia under Stalin.Heroism for mother Russia at the front;stalinism for the minest criticism just behind the front.Freedom of speech and mind were more possible in Hitler's Russia than in Stalin's Russia
 Everyday life on the Eastern front March 2, 2009
John Caine (Cheshire, U K)
An extremely interesting memoir of Grossman's experiences during the Axis powers' invasion of Russia. Almost reads like a gossip column, full of poignant anecdotes from the "foot soldier" to the highest ranks.
Wonderful portrait October 24, 2008
PC (London, UK)
A remarkable addition to the literature of 1941-45... A wonderful portrait of the wartime experience of Russia, whose people the author loved so much and felt for so deeply...
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