A Writer at War
Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945

Publisher:  Vintage
Year Published:  2005
Pages:  416pp   Price:  $39.95   ISBN:  978-0-307-27533-2
Library of Congress Number:  D764.G772 2006   Dewey:  940.54'217'092--dc22
Resource Type:  Book

When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the front lines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soliders and civilians alike. Beevor and Vinogradova have taken Grossman's notebooks and fashioned them into a gripping narrative.

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Table Of Contents

Introduction
Translators’ Note
Glossary


PART ONE

The Shock of Invasion 1941

1. Baptism of Fire August 1941
2. The Terrible Retreat August to September 1941
3. On the Bryansk Front September 1941
4. With the 50th Army September 1941
5. Back into the Ukraine September 1941
6. The German Capture of Orel October 1941
7. The Withdrawl before Moscow October 1941

PART TWO

The Year of Stalingrad 1942

8. In the South January 1942
9. The Air War in the South January 1942
10. On the Donets with the Black Division January and February 1942
11. With the Khasin Tank Brigade February 1942
12. ‘The Ruthless Truth of War’ March 1942 to July 1942
13. The Road to Stalingrad August 1942
14. The September Battles
15. The Stalingrad Academy Autumn 1942
16. The October Battles
17. The Tide Turned November 1942

PART THREE

Recovering the Occupied Territories 1943

18. After the Battle January 1943
19. Winning Back the Motherland The Early Spring of 1943
20. The Battle of Kursk July 1943

PART FOUR

From the Dnepr to the Vistula 1944

21. The Killing Ground of Berdichev January 1944
22. Across the Ukraine to Odessa March & April 1944
23. Operation Bagration June & July 1944
24. Treblinka July 1944

PART FIVE

Amid the Ruins of the Nazi World

25. Warsaw and Lódz January 1945
26. Into the Lair of the Fascist Beast January 1945
27. The Battle for Berlin April & May 1945

AFTERWORD
The Lies of Victory
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Source Notes
Index

Maps
Gomel and the Central Front, August 1941
In the Donbass, January to March 1942
Stalingrad, Autumn and Winter 1942
The Battle of Kursk, July 1943

Subject Headings

• Soviet History/WWII
• Soviet Union
• War
• World War II