A Writer At War
Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
The wartime notebooks of Vasily Grossman, who reported for the Red Army newspaper from Stalingrad to Berlin. Edited and translated by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova, they record the fighting, the soldiers and the first evidence of the Holocaust, and were the raw material for his novel Life and Fate.
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Anna Reid
I prefer this book even to [his novel] Life and Fate, which was recently dramatised on Radio 4. It’s just so immediate; it takes you right there. The editors, Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova, managed to persuade Grossman’s family to give them access to these notebooks, and it’s the first time they’ve been published. They’re so human and open, and Grossman is such an involved, interesting man.
Interview · December 2011
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