A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945
by Vasily Grossman
List Price:
Our Price: $9.09
You Save: $6.86 (43%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $7.00 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Vasily GrossmanEdition: Paperback
Published: 2007-03-13
ISBN: 0307275337
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Vintage
Book Reviews of A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945
Book Review: Great book
Summary: 5 Stars
Like the other books of his I've read (Black Book -- really great book), this book manages to be extremely factual yet at the same time emotionally gripping. Grossman's reporting narrative puts you in the time and the place and gives a strong sense of what it was like to be there - the senses, the feelings, the despair, the players, the impact to real people. If you are interested in the Soviet side of the war, or WW2 in general, this is a must read.
Summary of A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945
When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. Witnessing some of the most savage fighting of the war, Grossman saw firsthand the repeated early defeats of the Red Army, the brutal street fighting in Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk (the largest tank engagement in history), the defense of Moscow, the battles in Ukraine, the atrocities at Treblinka, and much more.Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova have taken Grossman's raw notebooks, and fashioned them into a gripping narrative providing one of the most even-handed descriptions --at once unflinching and sensitive -- we have ever had of what Grossman called “the ruthless truth of war.”
General Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Reading list continued
The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/ 11 Investigationby Philip Shenon
Twelve; Published: 2008-01-31; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $9.00
Price in other shops:
Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Loveby Lara Vapnyar
Pantheon; Published: 2008-06-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $10.00
Price in other shops:
The Monster of Florenceby Douglas Preston
Grand Central Publishing; Published: 2008-06-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.99
Price in other shops:
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deceptionby Scott McClellan
PublicAffairs; Published: 2008-05-28; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.40
Price in other shops:
Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plaguesby Frank Ryan
Back Bay Books; Published: 1998-09-23; Paperback; Book
Best price: $12.49
Price in other shops:
Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infectionsby Madeline Drexler
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2003-02-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.05
Price in other shops:
A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945by Vasily Grossman
Vintage; Published: 2007-03-13; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.09
Price in other shops:
The City of Falling Angelsby John Berendt
The Penguin Press; Published: 2005-09-27; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $1.00
Price in other shops:
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Streetby William Poundstone
Hill and Wang; Published: 2005-09-14; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $21.54
Price in other shops:
Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It)by William Poundstone
Hill and Wang; Published: 2008-02-05; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $5.80
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diaryby Anonymous
Picador; Published: 2006-07-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.96
Price in other shops:
The Fall of Berlin 1945by Antony Beevor
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2003-04-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.46
Price in other shops:
800 Days on the Eastern Front: A Russian Soldier Remembers World War II (Modern War Studies)by Nikolai Litvin
University Press of Kansas; Published: 2007-04-28; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $15.65
Price in other shops:
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War IIby Andrew Nagorski
Simon & Schuster; Published: 2007-09-18; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $7.98
Price in other shops:
A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War : Russia, 1941-1944by Willy Peter Reese, Stefan Schmitz, Max Hastings, Michael Hofmann
Published: 2005-11-02; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $10.98
Price in other shops:
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943by Antony Beevor
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 1999-05-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.99
Price in other shops:
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War (Vintage)by Rodric Braithwaite
Vintage; Published: 2007-10-09; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.94
Price in other shops:
Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's Crossby Albrecht Wacker
Pen and Sword; Published: 2006-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $18.94
Price in other shops:
Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945by Catherine Merridale
Picador; Published: 2006-01-23; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.33
Price in other shops:
Life and Fate (New York Review Books Classics)by Vasily Grossman
NYRB Classics; Published: 2006-05-16; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.26
Price in other shops: