A Writer of War

Informationen zum 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. Klappentext Subtitled, "Vasily Grossman With The Red Army 1941-1945". This offers an outstanding eye-witness account of the war on the Eastern Front. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Vasily Grossman, Grossman Vasily
• Assisted by: Antony Beevor (Editor), Luba Vinogradova (Editor), Antony Beevor (Translation), Luba Vinogradova (Translation), Vinogradova Luba (Translation)
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.09.2006
• EAN: 9781845950156
• ISBN: 978-1-84595-015-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Russia, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Europe / General, Second World War, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Biography: writers, Biography: historical, political and military