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Vasily Grossman

USSR · Eastern Front — fiction and war reporting

About

Red Army correspondent who covered Stalingrad, Kursk, and Berlin, and wrote the first published account of a Nazi extermination camp. His suppressed masterpiece Life and Fate is now ranked with Tolstoy.

Books in Database (3)

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Stalingrad 1952 · 1088 pages

The prequel to Life and Fate — the Shaposhnikov family as the German tide reaches the Volga — finally published uncensored in 2019.

Historical Fiction
Life and Fate cover
Life and Fate 1960 · 871 pages

The War and Peace of the twentieth century — one extended family swept through Stalingrad, the Gulag, and the Shoah.

Historical Fiction
A Writer at War cover
A Writer at War 2005 · 378 pages

Grossman's wartime notebooks as a Red Army correspondent, edited by Antony Beevor — Stalingrad, Kursk, Treblinka, Berlin.

Memoir

Events Covered

1942 Battle of Stalingrad 1945 Fall of Berlin 1943 Battle of Kursk