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Vasily Grossman
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)
Stalingrad 1952 · 1088 pages
Historical Fiction The prequel to Life and Fate — the Shaposhnikov family as the German tide reaches the Volga — finally published uncensored in 2019.
Life and Fate 1960 · 871 pages
Historical Fiction The War and Peace of the twentieth century — one extended family swept through Stalingrad, the Gulag, and the Shoah.
A Writer at War 2005 · 378 pages
Memoir Grossman's wartime notebooks as a Red Army correspondent, edited by Antony Beevor — Stalingrad, Kursk, Treblinka, Berlin.