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Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud to provide a masterpiece of the 2Nd World-War, nothing you've seen prior published in English, from among the great Russian writers of the 20th-century – a vivid eye-witness account of the Eastern Front and “the callous reality of war.”When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became an unique correspondent for the Red Star, the Red Army’s paper. A Writer at War – centered on the laptops by which Grossman collected raw-material for his posts – represents the conditions on the Eastern Front, and the deaths and lives of civilians and soldiers alike. Additionally, it contains a few of the earliest reportage about the Holocaust. Within the 3 years he allocated to task, Grossman observed a few of the most savage fighting of the war: the terrible beats of the Red Army, the ferocious street fighting in Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk (the biggest tank engagement in history), the protection of Moscow, the fights in Ukraine and significantly more.Historian Antony Beevor has brought Grossman’s uncooked laptops, and fashioned them right into a story supplying among the most even-handed explanations – at the same time unflinching and delicate – we've ever endured of what he named “the callous reality of war.”From the Hardcover version.