- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781407092010
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 400
A Writer At War
Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781407092010
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 400
A remarkable addition to the literature of 1941-45...a wonderful portrait of the wartime experience of Russia... A worthy memorial to a remarkable man
Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph
As a pithy account of war at its most extreme, this fascinating book will rarely be bettered
James Delingpole, Mail on Sunday
Grossman was above all a clear-eyed and generous witness to the human cost of war, civilians and soldiers of both sides, the lost women and broken men; in the very highest order of journalistic achievement, he was as alert to the victims as much as to the heroes his audience was required to read about
David Flusfeder, Daily Telegraph
Grossman, like Isaac Babel twenty years before him, lifts war correspondence to new heights
Literary Review
Impeccably edited, the commentary as informative as it is unobtrusive.
Robert Chandler, Financial Times
In bringing his notebooks to a wider audience, and in reminding us about this brilliant witness, Beevor and Vinogradova have done their readers - and Grossman's memory - a great service
Independent
Magnificent... Any war correspondent writing today about the horrors we are still being subjected to by ideologues, mean-spirited leaders and fanatics of various shades and faiths, should take the time to read him. There is a profound humanity in his prose, an abilitity for empathy and a capacity for rage that one rarely meets
Omer Bartov, Times Literary Supplement
Unforgettable... Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova have recovered nothing less than a lost classic of reportage
Sean McCarthy, The Scotsman