A writer at war : a Soviet journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945 /

A writer at war : a Soviet journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945 /

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Author / Creator:Grossman, Vasiliĭ
Edition:1st Vintage books ed.
Imprint:New York : Vintage Books, 2007.
Description:xxi, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Grossman, Vasiliĭ.
Grossman, Vasiliĭ Semenovich.
World War (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union -- Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Soviet Union.
Destruction and pillage.
Soviet Union.
Personal narratives.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10395226
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Varying Form of Title:A Soviet journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945
Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945
Other authors / contributors:Beevor, Antony, 1946-
Vinogradova, Luba.
ISBN:9780307275332
0307275337
Notes:Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 2005.
Original ed. has subtitle: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:Based on the notebooks in which Vasily Grossman gathered the raw materials for his newspaper articles, this book depicts as never before the crushing condition on the Eastern Front during World War II and the lives and deaths of infantrymen, tank drivers, pilots, snipers, and civilians. Deemed unfit for service when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Grossman became a special correspondent for 'The Red Star, ' the Red Army newspaper. A portly novelist in his mid-thirties with no military experience, he was given a uniform and hastily taught how to use a pistol. Remarkably, he spent three of the next four years at the front, observing with a writer's eye the most pitiless fighting ever recorded. Grossman witnessed almost all the major events of the Eastern Front: the appalling defeats and desperate retreats of 1941, the defense of Moscow, and the fighting in the Ukraine. In August 1942 he was posted to Stalingrad, where he remained during four brutal months of street fighting. Grossman was present at the battle of Kursk (the largest tank engagement in history), and, as the Red Army advanced, he reached Berdichev, where his worst fears for his mother and other relatives were confirmed. A Jew himself, he undertook the faithful recording of Holocaust atrocities as their extent dawned. His supremely powerful report 'The hell of Treblinka' was used in evidence at the Nuremberg tribunal. Anthony Beever, a historian, along with Luba Vinogradova, have woven Grossman's notebooks into a fluid, compelling narrative that gives us one of the best descriptions- at once unflinching and sensitive- of what Grossman called 'the ruthless truth of war.' -- from Publisher.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction Translators' Note Glossar?
  • Part One. The Shock of Invasion 1941
  • 1. Baptism of Fire August 1941
  • 2. The Terrible Retreat August to September 1941
  • 3. On the Bryansk Front September 1941
  • 4. With the 50th Army September 1941
  • 5. Back into the Ukraine September 1941
  • 6. The German Capture of Orel October 1941
  • 7. The Withdrawl before Moscow October 1941
  • Part Two. The Year of Stalingrad 1942
  • 8. In the South January 1942
  • 9. The Air War in the South January 1942
  • 10. On the Donets with the Black Division January and February 1942
  • 11. With the Khasin Tank Brigade February 1942
  • 12. 'The Ruthless Truth of War' March 1942 to July 1942
  • 13. The Road to Stalingrad August 1942
  • 14. The September Battles
  • 15. The Stalingrad Academy Autumn 1942
  • 16. The October Battles
  • 17. The Tide Turned November 1942
  • Part Three. Recovering the Occupied Territories 1943
  • 18. After the Battle January 1943
  • 19. Winning Back the Motherland The Early Spring of 1943
  • 20. The Battle of Kursk July 1943
  • Part Four. From the Dnepr to the Vistula 1944
  • 21. The Killing Ground of Berdichev January 1944
  • 22. Across the Ukraine to Odessa March & April 1944
  • 23. Operation Bagration June & July 1944
  • 24. Treblinka July 1944
  • Part Five. Amid the Ruins of the Nazi World
  • 25. Warsaw and Lódz January 1945
  • 26. Into the Lair of the Fascist Beast January 1945
  • 27. The Battle for Berlin April & May 1945
  • Afterword The Lies of Victory
  • Acknowledgements
  • Bibliography Source
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Maps Gomel and the Central Front, August 1941
  • In the Donbass, January to March 1942
  • Stalingrad, Autumn and Winter 1942
  • The Battle of Kursk, July 1943
Purchased by the Hanna Holborn Gray Library Fund established to honor Hanna Holborn Gray President of the University of Chicago 1978 - 1993 and her distinguished service to the University bookplate

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