A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945

This volume shapes the wartime notebooks of Vasily Grossman, a correspondent for the Red Army paper Red Star, into a chronological narrative of the Eastern Front. He records the 1941 retreats, the defense before Moscow, the street fighting at Stalingrad, the armor battle at Kursk, the reconquest of Ukraine, the camp at Treblinka, and the final advance into Berlin. Soldiers, civilians, and the wreck of towns stay in the foreground. Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova selected and translated the material. The book is front-line reportage assembled after the fact, not a novel and not a staff history.

Bound in quarter black buckram with Modigliani paper sides, printed on both covers with a colour design by Raquel Leis Allion. Black slipcase. Red endpapers.