Description
When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman was a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army’s newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Author at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions at the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. Witnessing one of the crucial most savage fighting of the war, Grossman saw firsthand the repeated early defeats of the Red Army, the brutal street fighting in Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk (the biggest tank engagement in history), the defense of Moscow, the battles in Ukraine, the atrocities at Treblinka, and a lot more.
Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova have taken Grossman’s raw notebooks, and fashioned them into a gripping narrative providing one of the crucial even-handed descriptions –immediately unflinching and sensitive — we’ve got ever had of what Grossman referred to as “the ruthless truth of war.”