Bibliograph

Stalingrad, Vasily Grossman ; translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler ; edited by Robert Chandler and Yuri Bit-Yunan

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Stalingrad, Vasily Grossman ; translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler ; edited by Robert Chandler and Yuri Bit-Yunan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Stalingrad

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Vasily Grossman ; translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler ; edited by Robert Chandler and Yuri Bit-Yunan

Series statement

New York Review Books classics

Summary

"In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini meet in Salzburg where they agree on a renewed assault on the Soviet Union. Launched in the summer, the campaign soon picks up speed, as the routed Red Army is driven back to the industrial center of Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga. In the rubble of the bombed-out city, Soviet forces dig in for a last stand. The story told in Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad unfolds across the length and breadth of Russia and Europe, and its characters include mothers and daughters, husbands and brothers, generals, nurses, political activists, steelworkers, and peasants, along with Hitler and other historical figures. At the heart of the novel is the Shaposhnikov family. Even as the Germans advance, the matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad. Far from the front, her eldest daughter, Ludmila, is unhappily married to the Jewish physicist Viktor Shtrum. Viktor's research may be of crucial military importance, but he is distracted by thoughts of his mother in the Ukraine, lost behind German lines."--, Provided by publisher

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