Stalingrad

Stalingrad
Author :
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 1089
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781681373270
ISBN-13 : 1681373270
Rating : 4/5 (270 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Stalingrad by : Vasily Grossman

Download or read book Stalingrad written by Vasily Grossman and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 1089 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in English for the first time, the prequel to Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate, the War and Peace of the twentieth Century. In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini meet in Salzburg where they agree on a renewed assault on the Soviet Union. Launched in the summer, the campaign soon picks up speed, as the routed Red Army is driven back to the industrial center of Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga. In the rubble of the bombed-out city, Soviet forces dig in for a last stand. The story told in Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad unfolds across the length and breadth of Russia and Europe, and its characters include mothers and daughters, husbands and brothers, generals, nurses, political activists, steelworkers, and peasants, along with Hitler and other historical figures. At the heart of the novel is the Shaposhnikov family. Even as the Germans advance, the matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad. Far from the front, her eldest daughter, Ludmila, is unhappily married to the Jewish physicist Viktor Shtrum. Viktor’s research may be of crucial military importance, but he is distracted by thoughts of his mother in the Ukraine, lost behind German lines. In Stalingrad, published here for the first time in English translation, and in its celebrated sequel, Life and Fate, Grossman writes with extraordinary power and deep compassion about the disasters of war and the ruthlessness of totalitarianism, without, however, losing sight of the little things that are the daily currency of human existence or of humanity’s inextinguishable, saving attachment to nature and life. Grossman’s two-volume masterpiece can now be seen as one of the supreme accomplishments of twentieth-century literature, tender and fearless, intimate and epic.


Stalingrad Related Books

Stalingrad
Language: en
Pages: 1089
Authors: Vasily Grossman
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-11 - Publisher: New York Review of Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Now in English for the first time, the prequel to Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate, the War and Peace of the twentieth Century. In April 1942, Hitler and Mussoli
Stalingrad
Language: en
Pages: 560
Authors: Antony Beevor
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-05-01 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the inter
To the Gates of Stalingrad
Language: en
Pages: 680
Authors: David M. Glantz
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-21 - Publisher: University Press of Kansas

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The confrontation between German and Soviet forces at Stalingrad was a titanic clash of armies on an unprecedented scale-a campaign that was both a turning poin
Stalingrad
Language: en
Pages: 512
Authors: Jochen Hellbeck
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-28 - Publisher: PublicAffairs

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Just days after the Germans surrendered at Stalingrad, legendary Red Army sniper Vasily Zaytsev described the horrors he witnessed during the five-month long co
Stalingrad To Berlin - The German Defeat In The East [Illustrated Edition]
Language: en
Pages: 741
Authors: Earl F. Ziemke
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-15 - Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Contains 72 illustrations and 42 maps of the Russian Campaign. After the disasters of the Stalingrad Campaign in the Russian winters of 1942-3, the German Wehrm