A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 13.03.2007 - 416 Seiten 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.” |
Inhalt
Baptism of Fire August 1941 | 3 |
The Terrible Retreat August to September 1941 | 18 |
On the Bryansk Front September 1941 | 27 |
With the 50th Army September 1941 | 31 |
Back into the Ukraine September 1941 | 36 |
The German Capture of Orel October 1941 | 45 |
The Withdrawal before Moscow October 1941 | 52 |
PART TWO The Year of Stalingrad 1942 | 65 |
With the Khasin Tank Brigade February 1942 | 95 |
The Ruthless Truth of War March to July 1942 | 110 |
The Road to Stalingrad August 1942 | 116 |
The September Battles | 132 |
The Stalingrad Academy Autumn 1942 | 154 |
The October Battles | 170 |
The Tide Turned November 1942 | 190 |
PART FOUR | 245 |
In the South January 1942 | 67 |
The Air War in the South January 1942 | 79 |
On the Donets with the Black Division | 85 |
AFTERWORD | 344 |
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